Zoospore(n.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore.
Zoospore(n.) See Swarmspore.
Zoosporic(a.) Of or pertaining to zoospores; of the nature of zoospores.
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