Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Asexual reproduction, as by budding, cell division, or parthenogenesis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Non-sexual reproduction.
- noun In botany, natural reproduction by buds, offshoots,cell-division, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.
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- noun
asexual reproduction
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun reproduction without the fusion of gametes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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This certainly has the potential of speeding up the evolutionary process. †“You mean they use a method other than agamogenesis? †They both shuddered. “Tell Us, †Uith†™ eems, “can this perversion be exploited somehow to strengthen the Empire? †“Perhaps.
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Gamogenesis: reproduction through fertilization: see agamogenesis.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Mrs. Johnson was surely cured of the rheumatism all right, but that does not prove that Mrs. Eddy is correct in her claim that Eve was made from Adam's rib; that agamogenesis is a fact in
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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I never knew more than one individual who believed in agamogenesis; she was unmarried, a lovely charac -
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy 1865
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- Medicine, absence or lack of milk secretion. agalactic, agalactous, agamogenesis
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