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

Ovaritis.

Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oöphytes or Oöphyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oöspheres, either while included in their oögonia or after exclusion.

Of or pertaining to an oöphyte.

The monetary unit of Nicaragua, equivalent to the United States gold dollar.

A wild, bearded sheep inhabiting the Ladakh mountains. It is reddish brown, with a dark beard from the chin to the chest.

The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour.

An analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle. Goodale.

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

A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oösphere by antherozoids.

Of or pertaining to an oöspore.

One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.

e, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.

A half oviparous, or an oviparous, mammal; a marsupial or monotreme.

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

mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded." Shak.

Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; esp., such leather with a soft, finely granulated finish (called sometimes velvet finish) put on the flesh side for special purposes. Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in bookbinding, etc. Hence Ooze calf, Ooze finish, etc.…

Same as Acrita.

Miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze; as, the oozy bed of a river. Pope.

In earnest; heartily. [Obs.] "I made her weep agood." Shak.