PARTHENOGENESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parthenogenesis mean? 

• PARTHENOGENESIS (noun)
  The noun PARTHENOGENESIS has 2 senses:

1. human conception without fertilization by a man

2. process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods

  Familiarity information: PARTHENOGENESIS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTHENOGENESIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Human conception without fertilization by a man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

parthenogenesis; parthenogeny; virgin birth

Hypernyms ("parthenogenesis" is a kind of...):

agamogenesis; asexual reproduction (reproduction without the fusion of gametes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

parthenogenesis; parthenogeny

Hypernyms ("parthenogenesis" is a kind of...):

apomixis (any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parthenogenesis"):

androgenesis; androgeny (male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization)

gynogenesis (female parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only maternal chromosomes due to the failure of the sperm to fuse with the egg nucleus)

Derivation:

parthenogenetic ((of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction)

 Context examples 

The term clone may also be used to refer to an animal produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or parthenogenesis.

(Clone, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This procedure reduced the number of lethal mutations so that this line can be used for parthenogenesis.

(AB Zebrafish, NCI Thesaurus)