A meiocyte may be a sort of cell that differentiates into a gamete through the process of meiosis.
A cell showing meiosis is known as meiocyte.
Farmer and Moore first introduced the term meiosis. It can be defined as, "The reductional division occurring only in diploid cells for the formation of haploid cells in which the number of chromosomes and the nuclear DNA content are reduced to half, and there is the recombination of hereditary material."