Word Meanings - GAMOMORPHISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.

Related words: (words related to GAMOMORPHISM)

• MATURENESS
  The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• MATURITY
  1. The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan. 2. Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note,
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MATURANT
  A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration.
• MATURING
  Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.
• MATURESCENT
  Approaching maturity.
• PROPAGATIVE
  Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.
• PROPAGATION
  1. The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• MATURATIVE
  Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration.
• GENERATIVE
  Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.
• STAGECOACHMAN
  One who drives a stagecoach.
• PROPAGATE
  akin to propages, propago, a layer of a plant, slip, shoot. See Pro-, 1. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species
• MATURER
  One who brings to maturity.
• STAGECOACH
  A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
• DEVELOPMENTAL
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.
• GROWTHEAD
  A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser.
• HEMATURIA
  Passage of urine mingled with blood.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• RETROGENERATIVE
  Begetting young by retrocopulation.
• LIMATURE
  1. The act of filing. 2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson.
• INGENERATION
  Act of ingenerating.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• THAUMATURGICS
  Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• UNREGENERATION
  Unregeneracy.
• RING ARMATURE
  An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
• REGENERATOR
  A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping,
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• DEGENERATION
  That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. (more info) 1. The act or state of growing worse,
• HOSTAGE
  A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before
• INGROWTH
  A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.