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

It would seem that the reproductive elements are not so completely blended by grafting as by sexual generation.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles

By the opening of the capsule the spores are set free, and under suitable conditions germinate and give rise to the sexual generation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

The phenomena of inheritance in the sexual generation of hybrids show this clearly.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

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

Indeed, when a plant has monoecious or dioecious flowers, the distinction between the asexual and the sexual generation has practically been lost, and the spore-bearing generation has become identified with the sexual generation.

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