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Parthenogenetic

Parthenogenetic \Par`the*no*ge*net"ic\, a. (Biol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms. -- Par`the*no*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

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parthenogenetic

a. (context biology English) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms.

WordNet
parthenogenetic

adj. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction [syn: agamic, agamous, agamogenetic, apomictic]

Usage examples of "parthenogenetic".

There were legends of ancient parthenogenetic clans whose daughters brought status and wealth to the hive by hiring out as stealthy assassins.

What talent or ability had enabled the original ancestress of such broody, beetle-browed women to establish a parthenogenetic clan?

Statistically, most of the women I glimpsed must have been members of some parthenogenetic clan.

On Stratos, parthenogenetic reproduction is as easy or hard, as cheap or dear, as having babies the normal way.

During autumn, winter, and spring, Stratoin women have parthenogenetic clones.

Posleen were parthenogenetic carnivores that looked like a cross between centaurs, crocodiles and ponies.

Delphi, born of the mud left after the great deluge and a parthenogenetic daughter of earth.

Even organisms as complex as insects can in some cases give birth to parthenogenetic young and, in the case of aphids, for instance, do so as a matter of course.

A strange set of methods was used at one time to stimulate parthenogenetic egg development.

If that is so, this is the only account in Passamaquoddy lore in which his parthenogenetic origin is traced.