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

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sexual generation

De Bary thinks that he is authorized in assuming the probability that the conceptacles and organs of fructification of others of the Ascomycetes, including the Discomycetes and the Tuberacei, are the results of sexual generation.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

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

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 salps of the aggregate form are therefore merely buds from the solitary form, and are not produced in the ordinary way, by sexual generation.

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

It should also be observed that in sexual generation, the ovules and the male element have equal power of transmitting every single character possessed by either parent to their offspring.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles