GAMETE
\ɡˈamiːt], \ɡˈamiːt], \ɡ_ˈa_m_iː_t]\
Definitions of GAMETE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A sexual cell or germ cell; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oospore. In Zool., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.
By Oddity Software
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A sexual cell or germ cell; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oospore. In Zool., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.
By Noah Webster.
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The reproductive cells in multicellular organisms.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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1. One of two cells undergoing caryogamy or true conjugation. 2. In heredity any germ-cell, whether ovum, spermatozoon, or pollen-cell.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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(biol.). Sexual protoplasmic body, which unites with another for reproduction. [Greek]
By Sir Augustus Henry
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A conjugative cell-element.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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