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PARTHENOTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parthenote mean?
• PARTHENOTE (noun)
The noun PARTHENOTE has 1 sense:
1. a cell resulting from parthenogenesis
Familiarity information: PARTHENOTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cell resulting from parthenogenesis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("parthenote" is a kind of...):
cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)
Domain category:
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
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