Usually means: Reproductive cell for sexual reproduction.
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  1. gamete: Merriam-Webster
  2. gamete: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gamete: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gamete: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gamete: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gamete, gamete: Wordnik
  7. gamete: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gamete: Wiktionary
  9. gamete: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gamete: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gamete: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gamete: Dictionary.com
  13. gamete: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gamete: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. gamete: Rhymezone
  16. gamete: FreeDictionary.org
  17. gamete: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. gamete: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. gamete: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gamete: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. gamete: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Gamete: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  7. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  8. gamete: Medical dictionary
  9. Gamete: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  2. Gamete: Biology dictionary
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
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  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. gamete: Evolution Glossary
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  8. gamete: Natural History Terms
  9. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gamete: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  (cytology) A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.

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