sporosac (sporosak)

[NL. spora, spore, + L. saccus, sack: see sack2.] 1. In Hydrozoa, a degenerate medusiform person; one of the simple generative buds or gonophores of certain hydrozoans in which the medusoid structure is not developed. Encyc. Brit., XII. 554. -2. In Vermes, a sporocyst or redia. See spo rocyst ( b ). sporostegium (spō-ro-stē ji-um), n.; pl. sporostegia (-a). [NL., He was care full lest his tongue should any way digre e from truth, euen when he most sported. Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 294. 3. In zool. and bot., to become a sport; pro duce a sport; vary from normal structure in a singular spontaneous manner, as an animal or a plant. See sport, n., 8. sport (sport), n. [