Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Oophore \O"["o]*phore\, n. [Gr. ? egg-bearing; w,'o`n an egg + ?
   to bear.] (Bot.)
   An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants,
   as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and
   archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted
   with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores
   in countless number. In ferns the o["o]phore is a minute
   prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.