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- noun Plural form of
antherozoid .
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Examples
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In many cases the differentiation of the sexual cells does not proceed so far as the formation of antherozoids or of distinct oospheres; these cases I shall investigate with the others in detail presently.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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The antheridia are stalked sacs, with a single wall of cells, and the spiral antherozoids arise by free-cell formation from the cells of the interior.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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The adjacent sporangia also become cut off by septa, and the investing membrane, when mature, opens: it a beak-like prolongation, thus permitting the inclosed densely congregated green granules to be penetrated by the antherozoids which swarm from the antheridium at the same time.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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By these methods the cilia are seen to be fine protoplasmic outgrowths of the cell (fig. 1) of the same nature as those of the zoospores and antherozoids of algae, mosses,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Down this canal pass one or more antherozoids, which become absorbed into the oosphere, and this then secretes a wall, and from it grows the second or asexual generation.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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The upper part of the antheridium becomes separated from the parent stem by a septum, and its contents are converted into ciliated motile antherozoids.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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Hence the spermatozoa and antherozoids travel in the lower aquatic animals and plants to the female, and pollen is borne to the female organ.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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Hence the spermatozoa and antherozoids travel in the lower aquatic animals and plants to the female, and pollen is borne to the female organ.
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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The following is interesting, as containing a foreshadowing of the chemotaxis of antherozoids which was shown to exist by Pfeffer in
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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Hence the spermatozoa and antherozoids travel in the lower aquatic animals and plants to the female, and pollen is borne to the female organ.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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