gamete

gamete

See also: gamète

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γαμετή (gametḗ, “wife”), γαμέτης (gamétēs, “husband”), ultimately from γάμος (gámos, “marriage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæmiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

gamete (plural gametes)

1. (cytology) A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.

Synonyms

• sex cell
• See also Thesaurus:gamete

Hypernyms

• germ cell

Hyponyms

• spermatozoon
• sperm
• ovum
• egg

Derived terms

• gametic
• gametically
• gametocyte
• gametogenesis
• gametophyte

 

Translations

reproductive cell

Armenian: գամետ (hy) (gamet), սեռական բջիջ (seṙakan bǰiǰ) Assamese: জননকোষ (zononküx) Basque: gameto Catalan: gàmeta m Czech: gameta (cs) f Danish: kønscelle c Dutch: geslachtscel (nl) Esperanto: gameto Estonian: sugurakk Finnish: sukusolu (fi), gameetti (fi), sukupuolisolu (fi) French: gamète (fr) m German: Geschlechtszellen, Gamet (de) m Greek: γαμέτης (el) m (gamétis) Hindi: जननकोश (janankoś) Hungarian: gaméta, ivarsejt (hu)

Icelandic: kynfruma (is) f Ido: gameto (io) Italian: gamete (it) m Japanese: 配偶子 (はいぐうし, haigūshi) Maori: pūtau hema Norwegian: Bokmål: kjønnscelle Nynorsk: kjønnscelle Persian: زامه‎ (zâme) Portuguese: gameta (pt) f Russian: гаме́та (ru) f (gaméta) Spanish: gameto (es) m Swedish: gamet (sv) c, könscell (sv) c Tamil: பாலணு (pālaṇu) Turkish: gamet (tr), dölcük, eşey hücresi (tr), eşeylik gözesi Welsh: gamet (cy) m

See also

• oocyte
• spermatid
• meiosis
• syngamy

Anagrams

• metage

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Italian

Noun

gamete m (plural gameti)

1. (cytology) gamete

Derived terms

• gametangio
• gametofito
• gametogenesi

Anagrams

• tegame