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Definition of Gametophyte
1. Noun. The gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations.
Definition of Gametophyte
1. n. In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs. In the lower plants, as the algæ, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.
Definition of Gametophyte
1. Noun. (botany) A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote. ¹
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Definition of Gametophyte
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Medical Definition of Gametophyte
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gametophyte
Literary usage of Gametophyte
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The gametophyte produces gametes, usually called sperms and eggs; a sperm unites
with an egg, and this fertilized egg is the first cell of the sporophyte. ..."
2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"—The development of the female gametophyte of angiosperms begins with free ...
Development of female gametophyte of angiosperms, as shown by a lily: 589, ..."
3. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"THE MALE gametophyte Our knowledge of the development of the male ... From this
last account the following description of the male gametophyte and of ..."
4. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"I. THE gametophyte. The first discovery of the gametophyte of the Ophioglossaceae
was made by Hofmeister (Hofmeister 1) who, in 1854, found the gametophyte ..."
5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"Therefore the gametophyte of the Pteridophyta only will be described here ...
It has been shown that the gametophyte in the Bryophyta, starting from simple ..."
6. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"What was said about the male gametophyte of gymnosperms applies here as well.
... Though very small among gymnosperms, the female gametophyte is even ..."
7. The Living Cycads by Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1919)
"While we should not attempt, within the cycads themselves, to trace an evolutionary
line based upon the female gametophyte, the preceding argument indicates ..."
8. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The leafless sporophyte is anchored in the leafy gametophyte by means of an organ
called ... The micro- spore upon germination produces a male gametophyte, ..."
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