Oospere \O"["o]*spere\, n. [Gr. ? an egg + E. sphere.]
1. (Bot.) An unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm,
produced in an o["o]gonium.
Note: After being fertilized by the access of antherozoids it
becomes covered with a cell wall and develops into an
o["o]spore, which may grow into a new plant like the
parent.
2. (Bot.) An analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a
flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle. --Goodale.