sexual generation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sexual generation
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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We have seen that variability does not depend on sexual generation, though much more frequently its concomitant than of bud reproduction.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
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 P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers) Mitchell
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
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
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
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