agamont Biol.
(eɪˈgæmənt)
[a. G. agamont (M. Hartmann 1904, in Biol. Centralbl. XXIV. 25): see a- 14, gamont.]
= schizont.
| 1912 [see gamont]. 1940 [see merozoite s.v. mero- 1]. 1963 G. A. Kerkut Borradaile & Potts's Invertebrata (ed. 4) ii. 43 After a period of ‘vegetative’ existence and increase by asexual reproduction, during which the individuals [sc. protozoa] are known as agamonts, there appears a generation known as gamonts because they produce gametes. 1973 K. G. Grell Protozool. 137 In Foraminifera..the agamonts, after meiosis, as well as the gamonts reproduce by multiple fission. |