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PARTHENOGENY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parthenogeny mean?
• PARTHENOGENY (noun)
The noun PARTHENOGENY 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: PARTHENOGENY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Human conception without fertilization by a man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
parthenogenesis; parthenogeny; virgin birth
Hypernyms ("parthenogeny" 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 ("parthenogeny" is a kind of...):
apomixis (any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parthenogeny"):
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)
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