gametogenesis

English Thesaurus

1. the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis (noun.process)

hypernym	:	development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny,
definition	:	(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level (noun.process)

hyponym	:	oogenesis,
definition	:	development of ova (noun.process)

hyponym	:	spermatogenesis,
definition	:	development of spermatozoa (noun.process)