sporosacn.
Zoology.
A simple form of gonophore.
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1859 Annals Nat. Hist. IV. 140 These medusiform sporosacs.
1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 40 The simplest kind of gonophore consists of a well-defined protuberance from the body-wall, the ‘sporosac’.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 762 A sporosac..lodged in an ampulla or cavity of the coenosteum.
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