Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large gamete or germ-cell, as distinguished from a microgamete; a macrogamete. The ovum is a megagamete, the spermatozoon a microgamete; the two unite to form a zygote.
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Examples
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In previous discussions of the subject I have urged that the only meaning of sex was the difference between the megagamete or ovum, and the microgamete or sperm.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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But what is sex but the difference between ovum and spermatozoon, between megagamete and microgamete?
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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