zoosporichttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoosporic_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoosporic, adj.
Revised 2017

zoosporicadjective

Biology.
  1. 1854–
    Producing zoospores; of the nature of, or effected by zoospores; = zoosporous adj.
    1. 1854
      Details on the mode of reproduction of zoosporic algæ.
      Florist & Hort. Journal (Philadelphia) vol. 3 102 (title)
    2. 1885
      The parasite while in its zoosporic stage makes its way into an epidermal cell, which then increases rapidly in size.
      Botanical Gazette vol. 10 236
    3. 1942
      These fungi constitute an ascending evolutionary line originating in the zoosporic Monadineae.
      J. S. Karling, Simple Holocarpic Biflagellate Phycomycetes 102
    4. 1974
      Part 3..leads the students in elaborate detail through the culturing and examination of the life cycles of a zoosporic plant (a water mold, Allomyces).
      American Biol. Teacher vol. 36 118/3
    5. 2002
      In frog diseases, human pythiosis, potato blight, and all of the maladies caused by zoosporic fungi, zoospores are the agents that initiate the infection.
      N. P. Money, Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard vi. 121

Originally published as part of the entry for zoospore, n.

zoosporic, adj. was revised in June 2017.

zoosporic, adj. was last modified in July 2023.