microzoospore

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

micro- +‎ zoospore

Noun[edit]

microzoospore (plural microzoospores)

  1. (botany) A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for microzoospore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)