[f. SPORO- + CYST sb. So F. sporocyste.]

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  1.  Zool. A cyst or capsule containing spores, forming a stage in the development of Trematodes, etc.

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1861.  Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. VII. xiii. 392. The Echinococci are worms which are enclosed in very variable numbers in a membranous cyst (sporocyst).

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., iv. 209. There is, therefore, a very close resemblance between this cestoid embryo and the sporocyst of a Trematode.

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1888.  Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 651. The Sporocyst possesses the power … of multiplying either by transverse fission,… or by gemmation.

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  2.  Bot. (See quot.)

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1866.  Treas. Bot., 1088/2. Sporocyst, the spore-case of algals.

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