Word.ws English Dictionary

zoosporangium

zoosporangium noun: a sporangium, or conceptacle containing or producing zoospores.

Noun

zoosporangium (plural zoosporangia)

  1. A sporangium, or conceptacle containing or producing zoospores.

Forms of zoosporangium

pluralzoosporangia
alternative formzoösporangium

Origin of zoosporangium

From zoo- + sporangium.

Questions about zoosporangium

What does zoosporangium mean?
Zoosporangium means a sporangium, or conceptacle containing or producing zoospores.
What part of speech is zoosporangium?
Zoosporangium is a noun.
What is the plural of zoosporangium?
The plural of zoosporangium is zoosporangia.

Words near zoosporangium in the dictionary

  1. zoosporanges
  2. zoosporangia
  3. zoosporangial
  4. zoosporangiophore
  5. zoosporangiophores
  6. zoosporangium
  7. zoospore
  8. zoospores
  9. zoosporic
  10. zoosporicidal
  11. zoosporiferous

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zoosporangium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “zoosporangium.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/zoosporangium. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.