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Word: Gamete
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century: from modern Latin gameta, from Greek gametē ‘wife’, gametēs ‘husband’, from gamos ‘marriage’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈɡamiːt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a mature haploid male or female germ cell which is able to unite with another of the opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a zygote.
Short Definition:mature haploid male or female germ cell which is able to unite with another of opposite sex in sexual reproduction
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