See Also: crull(dictionary)

gametophyte (iou) and crull (iou)


gametophyte (iou)



gametophyte noun. L19.
[from GAMETO- + -PHYTE.]
Botany. In the alternation of generations, the gamete-producing (usu. haploid) phase in the life cycle of a plant (the dominant form in bryophytes) which forms the zygote from which the sporophyte arises. Cf. SPOROPHYTE.
gametophytic adjective of, pertaining to, or of the Nature of a gametophyte E20.

crull (iou)



crull adjective.Only in ME.
[Middle Dutch krul rel. to Middle Low German krus crisp, curly.]
Curly.
? The base of CURL(ED).