Definition of Macrogametes

1. Noun. (plural of macrogamete) ¹

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Definition of Macrogametes

1. macrogamete [n] - See also: macrogamete

Lexicographical Neighbors of Macrogametes

macrofarad
macrofauna
macrofaunae
macrofaunal
macrofaunas
macrofibre
macrofibres
macrofiction
macrofilaricidal
macroflora
macrofloras
macrofollicular adenoma
macrofossil
macrofossils
macrogametes (current term)
macrogametocyte
macrogamont
macrogamy
macrogastria
macroglia
macroglia cell
macroglial
macroglial cell
macroglial cells
macroglobulin
macroglobulinaemia
macroglobulinaemias
macroglobulinemia

Literary usage of Macrogametes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"By this time the macrogametes are capable of conjugation, and the process takes place within the host, generally, however, outside the affected and ..."

2. An Introduction to Zoology by Robert William Hegner (1910)
"These are female colonies, and the cells are macrogametes. ... encounters a colony of macrogametes it becomes attached to it, ..."

3. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"... some parasites giving rise to macrogametes, others by division forming small, actively swimming micro- gametes with one or two ..."

4. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"After the latter havo become free they penetrate into macrogametes with active motility, fertilize these and form again an oocyst (sporogony). ..."

5. Protozoölogy by Gary Nathan Calkins (1909)
"macrogametes spherical. Effects slight enlargement of corpuscle. Incubation period about fourteen ... macrogametes spherical; less numerous than in vivax. ..."

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