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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A term used by Haeckel to denote a mode of reproduction supposed to characterize the Geryoniidæ, but subsequently determined to be due to an error of observation.
  • noun The alternation of sexual and parthenogenetic generations, seen especially in certain parasitic Trematoda. Also alloiogenesis.

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