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

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sexual generation

Indeed, when a plant has monoecious or dioecious flowers, the distinction between the asexual and the sexual generation has practically been lost, and the spore-bearing generation has become identified with the sexual generation.

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)

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

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)

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