gameto-, gamet- +
(Greek: from gamet[e], "wife" and gamet[es], "husband" [from gamein, "to marry"]; used chiefly as "pertaining to a gamete, a mature reproductive cell")
agamete
1. A mature reproductive cell that does not fuse with another to form a zygote; a noncopulating germ cell.
2. An asexual reproductive cell that progresses directly into an adult as a spore.
gametophore, gametophoric
1. An upright branch in plants; such as, mosses that bears the reproductive organs.
2. That part of the plant that bears the gametes or sexual cells. In mosses, all of the plant except the "fruit," or seta and capsule.
gynogametangium
An female organ or cell in which gametes are produced
gynogamete
A female gamete; egg; ovum.
heterogamete
1. A gamete (a mature reproductive cell) produced by the heterogametic sex.
2. A gamete belonging to one of two distinguishable types.
A gamete may fuse with another gamete of the opposite sex, to form a zygote (fertilized gamete); the male gametes are known as sperms and the female gametes as eggs.
homogamete, homogametic
Having only one kind of gamete.
macrogamete
The larger gamete, always female, produced by a heterogamous organism.
zoogamete
A motile gamete.
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