Meanings of antherozoid in English

The antherozoid is a spirally-coiled thread of protoplasm, furnished at one end with a pair of cilia.

The antherozoids are attracted to the oospheres, round each of which they swarm in great numbers.

The oosphere is in all cases fertilized while still within the oogonium, the antherozoids being admitted by means of a pore.

Hence the spermatozoa and antherozoids travel in the lower aquatic animals and plants to the female, and pollen is borne to the female organ.

The antheridia are stalked sacs, with a single wall of cells, and the spiral antherozoids arise by free-cell formation from the cells of the interior.