gamete
Meaning of gamete
noun
a mature haploid male or female germ cell which is able to unite with another of the opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a zygote.
late 19th century: from modern Latin gameta, from Greek gametē ‘wife’, gametēs ‘husband’, from gamos ‘marriage’.
Information about gamete
- It is a name.
- The plural form of gamete is: gametes.
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Hyphenation of gamete
ga-mete
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- gamete is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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Words that rhyme with gamete
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