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parthenium integrifolium |
parthenocarpy |
parthenocissus |
parthenocissus quinquefolia |
parthenocissus tricuspidata |
parthenogenesis
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| parthenogeny
| parthenon
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun parthenogenesis has 2 senses
- parthenogenesis(n = noun.process) parthenogeny, virgin birth - human conception without fertilization by a man; Array is a kind of agamogenesis, asexual reproduction
- parthenogenesis(n = noun.process) parthenogeny - process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods; Array has particulars: androgenesis, androgeny, gynogenesis
is a kind of apomixis
Derived form adjective parthenogenetic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
parthenogenesis, n. [Gr. parqe`nos a virgin + E. genesis.].
- The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis. [1913 Webster]
- The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embryonic vesicle. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
parthenogenesis, n. Biol. reproduction by a male gamete without fertilization, esp. as a normal process in invertebrates and lower plants.
Derivative
parthenogenetic adj. parthenogenetically adv.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk parthenos virgin + genesis as GENESIS
THESAURUS
parthenogenesis
abiogenesis, archigenesis, biogenesis, birth, blastogenesis, development, digenesis, epigenesis, eumerogenesis, generation, genesis, heterogenesis, histogenesis, homogenesis, isogenesis, merogenesis, metagenesis, monogenesis, orthogenesis, pangenesis, procreation, spontaneous generationROGET THESAURUS
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Production
N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.
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