alternate generation
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.03 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
7
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Each of the two forms of an organism whose life cycle involves alternation of generations, or the fact of such alternation occurring in a given organism.
Example Sentences
- "If, instead of a single individual, several were to be thus developed metagenetically within a pre-existing form, the process would be called one of alternate generation."
- "On the female side, the alternate generation is a small collection of cells, called an embryo sac, that is hidden away deep inside the reproductive parts of the maple tree."