gamete
A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.
A kind of
- reproductive cell
Kinds of gamete
- sperm
- ovum
Related words
- agamete
- anisogamete
- aplanogamete
- gametal
- gametic
- gametically
- gametocide
- gametocyte
- gametogenesis
- gametogenic
- gametogony
- gametoid
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “gamete” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.