'Zoospore' definitions:
Definition of 'zoospore'
From: WordNet
noun
An asexual spore of some algae and fungi that moves by means of flagella
Definition of 'Zoospore'
From: GCIDE
- Zoospore \Zo"o*spore\, n. [Zoo- + spore.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Bot.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) See Swarmspore. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'zoospore'
From: GCIDE
- Swarmspore \Swarm"spore`\, n.
- 1. (Bot.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoospore. [1913 Webster]