Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun oospore

1 sense of oospore

Sense 1
oospore -- (a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi)
       => spore -- (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes")