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Definition of Anisogamous
1. Adjective. Relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape).
Definition of Anisogamous
1. Adjective. being married to someone whose age differs by an unusually large degree from one's own. ¹
2. Adjective. having a sexual partner whose age differs by an unusually large degree from one's own. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anisogamous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anisogamous
Literary usage of Anisogamous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of General Embryology by William Erskine Kellicott (1913)
"... or anisogamous as described above. Here dissimilarity of the gametes is
facultative. In Eudorina two kinds of colonies are found. ..."
2. Microbiology for Agricultural and Domestic Science Students by Charles Edward Marshall, Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1911)
"anisogamous copulation, the union of two unequal cells, is most typically seen
in the fertilization of a large macro- gamete by a small ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"... formed and conjugation of two such anisogamous swarmers was followed step by
step. He found furthermore, that Arcella reproduces also by the formation ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"... but through anisogamous conjugation a gradual approach to true oogamy—the
highest type of sexual reproduction developed among the algae. ..."
5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... The gametes unite in couples, each couple being most probably composed of
dissimilar members: in other words, conjugation is slightly anisogamous. ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1893)
"... a + b, a + c, and b + c (anisogamous); c + c does not occur, "as if, concurrent
with its enlargement, the form c had become too inert to form ..."
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