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PARTHENOGENETIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parthenogenetic mean?
• PARTHENOGENETIC (adjective)
The adjective PARTHENOGENETIC has 1 sense:
1. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
Familiarity information: PARTHENOGENETIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
Synonyms:
agamic; agamogenetic; agamous; apomictic; parthenogenetic
Similar:
asexual; nonsexual (not having or involving sex)
Derivation:
parthenogenesis (process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods)
Context examples
And that the germ plasm is different from the parthenogenetic egg?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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