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)

(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

Derived terms

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

Anagrams

metage

Italian

Noun

gamete m (plural gameti)

(cytology) gamete

Derived terms

Anagrams

tegame

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