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

Translation of gamete

Anagrams of gamete

metage

Words that rhyme with gamete

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