expersate
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[edit]Etymology
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Adjective
[edit]expersate (not comparable)
- Being a oospore which lacks an ooplast.
- 1980, John Webster, Introduction to Fungi, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, […]: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 156:
- Expersate oospores lack an ooplast and have one to several oil droplets entirely surrounded by protoplasm. […] Dick (1971) has claimed that all known species of Saprolegniaceae possess an ooplast and that the term expersate is therefore superfluous.