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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Characterized by anisogamy, or conjugation between sharply differentiated male and female gametes.
Wiktionary
- adj. being married to someone whose age differs by an unusually large degree from one's own.
- adj. having a sexual partner whose age differs by an unusually large degree from one's own.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape)
Examples
“Reproduction can happen in two ways with Phaeophyceae, it is either isogamous (where the gametes look alike), or anisogamous (with a large female egg, and small male sperm) depending on the species.”
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