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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In biology, successive generation by two different processes, as sexual and asexual; parthenogenesis alternating with ordinary sexual reproduction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See parthenogenesis.

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  • noun biology The alternation of sexual and asexual methods of reproduction.

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  • noun alternation of sexual and asexual generations

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  • You see, any vestigial tissue assuming you have mixed gonadal digenesis may be a cancer risk.

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