oogenotop

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oogenotop (plural oogenotops)

  1. (zoology) The egg-forming apparatus in trematodes.
    • 2014, Rafael Toledo, Digenetic Trematodes, page 14:
      Following the inclusion of vitelline cells, the oocyte then continues along the egg-forming apparatus, or oogenotop, to another chamber termed the ootype.