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

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)

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)

On the crab being devoured by the right species of Cephalopod, the merozoites doubtless give rise to the sexual generation again.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" 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)