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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 manplay

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

  Familiarity information: PARTHENOGENY used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PARTHENOGENY (noun)


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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