AGAMETE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agamete mean? 

• AGAMETE (noun)
  The noun AGAMETE has 1 sense:

1. an asexual reproductive cell

  Familiarity information: AGAMETE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGAMETE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An asexual reproductive cell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("agamete" is a kind of...):

reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agamete"):

spore (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion)

Derivation:

agamic ((of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction)