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

Plants that are reproduced asexually often appear to deteriorate after a few generations unless a sexual generation is introduced.

From Mendelism Third Edition by Punnett, Reginald Crundall

On the crab being devoured by the right species of Cephalopod, the merozoites doubtless give rise to the sexual generation again.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

In such a typical moss as Funaria, we have the following cycle of developments: The sexual generation is a dioecious leafy structure, having a central elongated axis, with leaves arranged regularly around and along it.

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

In other gall-flies and in aphids we find that a sexual generation alternates with one or with many virgin generations.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

The characteristics, then, of the mosses are, that the sexual generation is leafy, the one or two asexual generations are thalloid, and that the spore-bearing generation is in parasitic connection with the sexual generation.

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