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Gametophyte

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.

    "In liverworts like Marchantia, which lives in most soggy places worldwide, the gametophyte is the dominant phase – the thing you would think of as the plant."

  2. 2
    the gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations wordnet

Etymology

From gameto- + -phyte (“plant”).

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