sexual generation

American  

noun

1. the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.

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Etymology

Origin of sexual generation

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

De Bary thinks that he is authorized in assuming the probability that the conceptacles and organs of fructification of others of the Ascomycetes, including the Discomycetes and the Tuberacei, are the results of sexual generation.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

The sexual generation is a small green thalloid structure called a prothallium, which bears antheridia and archegonia, each archegonium having a neck-canal and oosphere, which is fertilized just as in the moss.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various

In this chapter we clearly see that variability is not necessarily contingent on sexual generation, though much more frequently its concomitant than on bud-reproduction.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. by Darwin, Charles

Inferior vegetables and animals propagate by solitary generation only; next order by both; superior by sexual generation alone.

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus

In the simplest form, the organism arising from sexual generation produces offspiring unlike itself, agamogenetically.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H by Project Gutenberg