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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The cell formed by the union of two gametes, especially a fertilized ovum before cleavage.
  2. n. The organism that develops from a zygote.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In biology, a fertilized ovum, or the equivalent, in plants and in unicellular organisms, of a fertilized egg; the product of the conjugation of gametes, or sexual cells.
  2. n. Same as zygospore.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A fertilized egg cell.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell)

Etymologies

  1. From Greek zugōtos, yoked, from zugoun, to yoke; see yeug- in Indo-European roots.

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