gamete
gamete is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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 oöspore. In Zoöl., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- albumen
- anabolism
- anatomy
- animated
- antherozoid
- bacteriology
- biology
- bioplasm
- biotaxy
- botany
- chemistry
- chromosome
- cytoplasm
- germinal
- history
- invagination
- living
- matter
- metabolism
- metaplasm
- microbiology
- morphology
- mycology
- natural
- naturalist
- nature
- oecology
- ontogeny
- organic
- organism
- organization
- ovary
- ovum
- oxidation
- phylogeny
- physiology
- polymorphism
- production
- protein
- protoplasm
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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