1. (Bot.) An unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm, produced in an
oögonium.
After being fertilized by the access of antherozoids it becomes covered
with a cell wall and develops into an oöspore, which may grow into a
new plant like the parent.
2. (Bot.) An analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering
plant; an embryonic vesicle. Goodale.
||O`ö*spo*ran"gi*um (?), n.; pl. L. Oösporangia (#), E. Oösporangiums
||(#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; an egg + &?; vessel.] (Bot.) An oögonium;
||also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind
||than oöspores.
O"ö*spore (?), n. [Gr. &?; an egg + &?; a seed.] (Bot.) (a) A special
kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oösphere by
antherozoids. (b) A fertilized oösphere in the ovule of a flowering
plant.
O`ö*spor"ic (?), a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to an oöspore.
O*ös"te*gite (?), n. [Gr. &?; + &?; a roof.] (Zoöl.) One of the plates
which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.
||O`ö*the"ca (?), n.; pl. Oöthecæ (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; an egg + &?; a
||case.] (Zoöl.) An egg case, especially those of many kinds of
||mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Oœcium.
{ O*öt"*ooid (?), O*öt"o*coid (?), } n. [Gr. &?; laying eggs (&?; egg +
&?; a bearing, &?; to bear) + -oid.] (Zoöl.) A half oviparous, or an
oviparous, mammal; a marsupial or monotreme.
O"ö*type (?), n. [Gr. &?; + - type.] (Zoöl.) The part of the oviduct of
certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished
with a shell.
Ooze (?), n. [OE. wose, AS. wase dirt, mire, mud, akin to w&?;s juice,
ooze, Icel. vs wetness, OHG. waso turf, sod, G. wasen.] 1. Soft mud or
slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. "My
son i' the ooze is bedded." Shak.