Associations to the word «Gametophyte»

Wiktionary

GAMETOPHYTE, noun. (botany) A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.

Dictionary definition

GAMETOPHYTE, noun. The gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats