(n.) That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.
(n.) A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles.
(n.) One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bromoperoxidase I (which has been described before) was located inside the thallus, particularly around the conceptacles, whereas bromoperoxidase II was present at the thallus surface of the alga.
Zoosporangium
Definition:
(n.) A spore, or conceptacle containing zoospores.
Example Sentences:
(1) By using reciprocal shift experiments (transferring sporulating cells from 22 to 27 degrees C and vice versa) we characterized the timers of the phenotypes: septate zoosporangium, papillate zoosporangium, cleavage zoosporangium, and empty zoosporangium, considering the number of the components, sensitivity, duration, and the mutual dependency of each limiting factor.
(2) The fourth phenotype, empty zoosporangium, has a timer which appears to act sequentially to that of the papillate zoosporangium.
(3) The first drug prevents the appearance of the septate zoosporangium and the other two prevent the expression of the papillate zoosporangium.
(4) The plurilocular zoosporangium of Ectocarpus parvus Saunders in initiated as a uniseriate branch from a vegetative cell.