Definition of "megagamete" []

• See macrogamete. (noun)

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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."
• "But what is sex but the difference between ovum and spermatozoon, between megagamete and microgamete?"