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a reproductive cell or gamete which is either male or female.
Mycology and Botany. Originally: †a supposed reproductive cell in certain fungi (obsolete). Later: an oogonium or carpogonium in certain alga and…
The female element of a sexual cell.
a reproductive cell, either male or female in function; a gamete (sperm or egg cell), or a cell which gives rise to gametes.