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An oögonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oöspores.

Of or pertaining to an oöspore.

To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings. The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass. Thomson.

ften very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.

th develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.

nute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.

the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body. What! are my doors opposed against my passage! Shak.

Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.

To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand. Woodward.

The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance. Here is not a mere involution only, but a spiritual permeation and inexistence. Bp. Hall.

Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms. Addison.

To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.

To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate. That labyrinth is easily pervaded. Blackstone.

The influence of light on the movements of low organisms, as various infusorians, the zoöspores of certain algæ, etc.; also, the tendency to follow definite directions of motion or assume definite positions under such influence. If the migration is toward the source of light, it is termed positive phototaxis; if away f…

A gelatin in which the algæ spores have been supposed to vegetate.

its. Plurilocular sporangia (Bot.), many-celled sporangia, each cell containing a single spore, as in many algæ.

Having many pores. Wright.

A genus of fungi having the under surface full of minute pores; also, any fungus of this genus.

Containing many spores.

Having a smooth, compact shell without pores; -- said of certain Foraminifera.