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sexual generation
noun
- the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sexual generation1
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Example Sentences
In other cases (for instance, in the closely related doliolum) a sexual generation alternates with two (or more) neutral ones.
Hence the minute processes of conception and sexual generation are of the first importance.
On the crab being devoured by the right species of Cephalopod, the merozoites doubtless give rise to the sexual generation again.
Plants that are reproduced asexually often appear to deteriorate after a few generations unless a sexual generation is introduced.
Then, again, a sexual generation reappears like the one long before vanished.
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