gametophyte

English

Etymology

From gameto- +‎ -phyte (“plant”).

Noun

gametophyte (plural gametophytes)

1. (botany) A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.
   • 2018 May 25, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Related terms

• gametangium
• gamete
• gametogenesis
• gametophytic

Translations

plant which produces gametes

• Basque: gametofito
• Dutch: gametofyt (nl) m
• Finnish: gametofyytti
• French: gamétophyte (fr)
• Hungarian: gametofiton, ivaros szakasz, ivaros nemzedék
• Italian: gametofito (it)
• Portuguese: gametófito
• Spanish: gametofito, gametófito

See also

• sporophyte