Definitions for oogonia

oogonia o·o·go·ni·um

Spelling: [oh-uh-goh-nee-uh m]
IPA: /ˌoʊ əˈgoʊ ni əm/

Oogonia is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in oogonia (aginooo).

Definitions for oogonia

noun

  1. one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to oocytes.
  2. the one-celled female reproductive organ in certain thallophytes, usually a more or less spherical sac containing one or more eggs.

Origin of oogonia

From New Latin, dating back to 1865-70; See origin at oo-, -gonium

Examples for oogonia

De Bary has claimed for the oogonia in Cystopus and Peronospora a kind of fecundation which deserves mention here.

They are reproduced by means of antheridia and oogonia developed in conceptacles, clustered together at the apex of the branches.

Sexual reproduction by oogonia and antheridia; asexual reproduction by zoospores or conidia.

These escape and float passively away when the wall of the oogonia ruptures.

The Peronosporaceae reproduce themselves sexually by means of antheridia and oogonia as described in Pythium.

Mycelium present; antheridia but no antherozoids; oogonia with one or more oospheres: Peronosporaceae, Saprolegniaceae.

In the rotting tissues branches of the older mycelium similarly swell up and form antheridia and oogonia (fig. 4).

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