Oospore \O"["o]*spore\, n. [Gr. ? an egg + ? a seed.] (Bot.) (a) A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an o["o]sphere by antherozoids. (b) A fertilized o["o]sphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.
oospore n : a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi