Trichophore

1. n. One of the saclike organs from which the setae of annelids arise.
2. n. The special cell in red algae which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.