alternate generation
Biology
noun
Each of the two distinct forms which succeed one another in the life cycle of an organism which undergoes alternation of generations; (also) the occurrence of such a succession of forms.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Rymer Jones (1810–1880), morphologist and physiologist.
- forest tree
- forest worker
- foretaste
- foretell
- foreteller
- forethought
- foretoken
- foretold
- foretop
- fore-topgallant mast
- fore-topgallant sail
- foretopmast
- foretopsail
- foretriangle
- for ever
- forever
- for evermore
- forever more
- forevermore
- forewarn
- forewarned is forearmed
- forewarner
- forewarning
- forewent
- forewing