ooecia
-of ooecium

ooecium
-one of the special zooids, or cells, of bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. see bryozoa.

oogenesis
-the development, or mode of origin, of the ova.

oogonia
-of oogonium

oogonium
-a special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (fucus), and the orders vaucherieae and peronosporeae.

oogoniums
-of oogonium

ooidal
-shaped like an egg.

ook
-oak.

oolite
-a variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. it sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the european jurassic. see the chart of geology.

oolitic
-of or pertaining to oolite; composed of, or resembling, oolite.

oological
-of or pertaining to oology.

oologist
-one versed in oology.

oology
-the science of eggs in relation to their coloring, size, shape, and number.

oolong
-a fragrant variety of black tea having somewhat the flavor of green tea.

oomiac
-alt. of oomiak

oomiak
-a long, broad boat used by the eskimos.

oon
-one.

oones
-once.

oop
-to bind with a thread or cord; to join; to unite.

oopack
-alt. of oopak

oopak
-a kind of black tea.

oophore
-an alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. in ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.

oophorectomy
-ovariotomy.

oophoric
-having the nature of, or belonging to, an oophore.

oophorida
-of oophoridium

oophoridium
-the macrosporangium or case for the larger kind of spores in heterosporous flowerless plants.

oophoridiums
-of oophoridium

oophoritis
-ovaritis.

oophyte
-any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oophytes or oophyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oospheres, either while included in their oogonia or after exclusion.

oophytic
-of or pertaining to an oophyte.

oorial
-a wild, bearded sheep inhabiting the ladakh mountains. it is reddish brown, with a dark beard from the chin to the chest.

oospere
-an unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm, produced in an oogonium.
-an analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle.

oosperm
-the ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoon in impregnation.

oosporangia
-of oosporangium

oosporangium
-an oogonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oospores.

oosporangiums
-of oosporangium

oospore
-a special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oosphere by antherozoids.
-a fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.

oosporic
-of or pertaining to an oospore.

oostegite
-one of the plates which in some crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.

ootheca
-an egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. cf. ooecium.

oothecae
-of ootheca

ootocoid
-a half oviparous, or an oviparous, mammal; a marsupial or monotreme.

ootooid
-alt. of ootocoid

ootype
-the part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.

ooze
-soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
-soft flow; spring.
-the liquor of a tan vat.
-to flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
-fig.: to leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
-to cause to ooze.

oozed
-of ooze

oozing
-of ooze

oozoa
-same as acrita.

oozy
-miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze; as, the oozy bed of a river.