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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 reproductionplay

  Familiarity information: PARTHENOGENETIC used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PARTHENOGENETIC (adjective)


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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