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noun
A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
the gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: plant, flora, plant life
Narrower terms: megagametophyte, microgametophyte
History
From gameto- + -phyte (“plant”).
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
