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

The sexual generation of chain salps gives rise to forms which reproduce by buds.

From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by Mitchell, P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers)

Along with that remarkable process which, beginning in minute forms with what is called conjugation, developed into sexual generation, there came into play causes of frequent and marked fortuitous variations.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

I have used the word “beget,” of what, I am told, is asexual generation, whereas the word should be confined to sexual generation only. 

From Life and Habit by Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)

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 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