Oogonium \O`o*go"ni*um\, n.; pl. L. Oogonia, E. Oogoniums.
   [NL., fr. Gr. w,'o`n an egg + ? offspring.] (Bot.)
   A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing
   oospheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders
   Vaucherieae and Peronosporeae.
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