sexual generation

noun

1. the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sexual generation¹

First recorded in 1875–80

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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