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