Definition of Oogamete

1. a female gamete of certain protozoa [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oogamete

oocytes
oodles
oodlins
ooecia
ooecium
ooer
oof
oofier
oofiest
oofless
oofs
oofta
ooftish
ooftishes
oofy
oogamete (current term)
oogametes
oogamies
oogamous
oogeneses
oogenesis
oogenetic
oogenic
oogenies
oogeny
oogle
oogone
oogones
oogonia

Literary usage of Oogamete

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

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"is not sharply separated; one of these then separates from the common mass, enters the oogamete, and so conjugation is effected, ..."

2. The Protozoa by Gary Nathan Calkins (1901)
"... revealing that the oogamete was primitively one of a brood of at least four, has not been obliterated from the ontogenetic records of the Metazoa. ..."

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