Oospores is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 131 anagrams from letters in oospores (eoooprss).
First recorded in 1860-65; oo- + -spore
Reproduction from an oospore formed by the combination of two sexual cells.
The product of the union of an antherozoid and an oosphere is termed an oospore.
The oospore on germination usually gives origin to a zoosporangium, but may form directly a germ tube which infects the host.
After the production of this oospore the parent filament gradually loses its vitality and slowly decays.
The oospore becomes an oosporangium, and from it at least a hundred germinating bodies are at length expelled.
This oospore, or resting spore, may remain dormant in this state within the tissues of the foster plant for some months.