Medical Definition of Megagamete
1. The female element in anisogamy; it is the larger of the two sex cells, with more reserve material, and usually nonmotile. Synonym: megagamete. Origin: macro-+ G. Gamete, wife (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megagamete
Literary usage of Megagamete
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The micro-gametes soon liberate themselves front the residual cytoplasm of the
parent and swim away in search of a megagamete; each Ua very slender, ..."
2. A Textbook of General Embryology by William Erskine Kellicott (1913)
"At the same time the megagamete may increase considerably beyond the ... and swim
about until one reaches a megagamete which it then enters and their nuclei ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1893)
"The difference of size between the micro- and mega-gametes would tend to increase,
and a division of labour take place—the megagamete tending to accumulate ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1893)
"The difference of size between the micro- and mega-gametes would tend to increase,
and a division of labour take place—the megagamete tending to accumulate ..."
5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... and megagamete come into contact at their anterior colourless ends, the flagella
are drawn in, and a thick cellulose membrane is secreted round the ..."
6. Lessons in elementary biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1905)
"... micro- zooid) is relatively small and active, while the other or megagamete
... being the male, the megagamete the female conjugating body (see P- 173)- ..."
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