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

In the simplest form, the organism arising from sexual generation produces offspiring unlike itself, agamogenetically.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H by Project Gutenberg

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)

Along with that remarkable process which, beginning in minute forms with what is called conjugation, developed into sexual generation, there came into play causes of frequent and marked fortuitous variations.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

In liverworts this preliminary phase of the sexual generation is as a rule ill-marked or absent, and the plant may be said to develop directly from the spore.

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

The sexual generation of chain salps gives rise to forms which reproduce by buds.

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