Sporocyst
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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- n sporocyst In zoology: The cyst, sac, or capsule which is developed in the process of sporular encystment; any unicellular organism which becomes encysted and proceeds to sporulation.
- n sporocyst A cyst or sac containing spores or germs, such as is developed in the larval state of certain flukes, or trematoid worms, as Bucephalus; this state of such worms; a redia containing cercariæ. See redia, and cuts under cercaria, germarium, and Trematoda.
- n sporocyst In botany, a unicellular alga which, usually by a process of division, produces only asexual spores: in contrast with sporangium, which is usually limited to multi-cellular organs producing asexual spores.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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- Sporocyst the cyst or capsule developed in the process of sporular encystment
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Gr. seed + bladder
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Gr. sporos, a sowing, seed—speirein, to sow.
In literature:
Around each sporoblast two membranes are successively secreted (exospore and endospore), which constitute the sporocyst (XIII.
"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5" by Various
These two membranes form the spore-wall (sporocyst).
"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5" by Various
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