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Webster 1913 Edition

Oogonium

‖

Oˊo-go′ni-um

,

Noun.

;

pl. L.

Oogonia

(#)

, E.

Oogoniums

(#)

.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ω,ὄν

an egg + [GREEK] offspring.]

(Bot.)

A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (

Fucus

), and the orders

Vaucherieae

and

Peronosporeae

.