merogameten.
/ˈmɛrə(ʊ)ɡamiːt/, /ˌmɛrəʊɡəˈmiːt/, U.S. /ˈmɛroʊˌɡæmit/, /ˌmɛroʊɡəˈmit/ Biology. rare.
Originally: †a gamete that is smaller and of a different structure than vegetative cells of the same organism (obsolete). Later: a protistan gamete produced by schizogony.
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gamete1878
zoogamete1879
planogamete1880
macrogamete1888
microgamete1888
isogamete1891
megagamete1891
oogamete1891
progamete1892
heterogamete1897
ovum1900
non-crossover1914
merogamete1925
hologamete1926
anisogamete-
1925 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 3) vii. 583 The size of the merogametes varying with the number of divisions.
1932 L. A. Borradaile & F. A. Potts Invertebrata ii. 84 In the male gamont the nucleus divides several times, and the daughter nuclei are set free with portions of the cytoplasm as biflagellate male gametes, which are thus merogametes.
1963 G. A. Kerkut Borradaile & Potts's Invertebrata (rev. ed.) ii. 36 C[hlamydomonas] brauni and other species..form merogametes of two sizes and are definitely anisogamous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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