Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Botany The gamete-producing phase in a plant characterized by alternation of generations.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In thallophytes, the sexual form of plant, as distinguished from the sporophyte, or asexual form.
Wiktionary
- n. botany A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes. In the lower plants, as the algæ, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations
Etymologies
- From gamete + -phyte (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Anthocerotales are a small and very distinct group, in which the gametophyte is a thallus, while the sporogonium possesses a sterile columella and is capable of long-continued growth and spore production.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
“Ulva produces isomorphic thalli for its diploid sporophyte and haploid gametophyte.”
“Sometimes she could remember, sometimes there were flashes of brilliance, but sometimes she was lucky to remember the difference between the gametophyte and sporophyte stages of a fern.”
“The gametophyte or prothallial generation is thus extremely reduced, consisting of but little more than the male and female sexual cells -- the two sperm-cells in the pollen-tube and the egg-cell (with the synergidae) in the embryo-sac.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
“The last-mentioned case has been regarded as representing an apogamous development of the sporophyte from the gametophyte comparable to the cases of apogamy described in Ferns.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
“The organization of the gametophyte stands in the closest relation to the factors of light and moisture in the environment.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
“When artificially divided small fragments of the gametophyte are found to be capable of growing into new individuals.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
“Parallel with the evolution of the gametophyte in form and structure, a progression can be traced in the sporogonium, although the simplest sporogonia available for study may owe much of their simplicity to reduction.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
“Each male gametophyte form a pollen tube that penetrate the tissue of the female gametophyte.”
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