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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
First recorded in 1875–80
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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.
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Hence the minute processes of conception and sexual generation are of the first importance.
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On the crab being devoured by the right species of Cephalopod, the merozoites doubtless give rise to the sexual generation again.
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Plants that are reproduced asexually often appear to deteriorate after a few generations unless a sexual generation is introduced.
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Then, again, a sexual generation reappears like the one long before vanished.
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