Bot. Pl. -ia. Also in anglicized form zoosporange. [mod.L., f. next after SPORANGIUM.] A receptacle containing zoospores. Hence Zoosporangiophore [see -PHORE], a structure bearing zoosporangia.
1874. Cooke, Fungi, 170. Thick filaments or tubes, similar to those which form the Zoosporangia.
1882. Huxley, in Nature, 9 March, 438. The zoospores are set free through an opening formed at the apex of the zoosporangium.
1889. A. W. Bennett & Murray, Crypt. Bot., 326. The … zoospores are borne in zoosporanges at the end of cylindrical or club-shaped zoosporangiophores.
