Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The production of fruit without fertilization.
Wiktionary
- n. botany production of (seedless) fruit without fertilization of ovules.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (botany) the development of a fruit without fertilization or seeds
Etymologies
- Greek parthenos, virgin + Greek karpos, fruit; see -carp + -y2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Its form can vary from irregular and contorted to a near-perfect but sterile fruit. parthenocarpy, which is the formation of fruits without fertilization or the formation of seeds.”
“Plants evolved parthenocarpy to ensure their continued existence.”
“But then parthenocarpy is itself an unusual bargain.”
“Many species of figs are pollinated by symbiotic wasps, but there are other fig varieties that develop edible, seedless figs through a process called parthenocarpy.”
“It involves crossing and back-crossing parents to produce something called parthenocarpy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘parthenocarpy’.
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Carp
carp, carping, carpet, pilocarpine, parthenocarpy, carper, basidiocarp, acarpous, apocarpous, ascocarp, Brussels carpet, carpe diem and 104 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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