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Parthenogenesis

noun
1.
Human conception without fertilization by a man.  Synonyms: parthenogeny, virgin birth.
2.
Process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods.  Synonym: parthenogeny.






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"Parthenogenesis" Quotes from Famous Books



... albumen &c 357. spontaneous generation; archegenesis^, archebiosis^; biogenesis, abiogenesis^, digenesis^, dysmerogenesis^, eumerogenesis^, heterogenesis^, oogenesis, merogenesis^, metogenesis^, monogenesis^, parthenogenesis, homogenesis^, xenogenesis1^; authorship, publication; works, opus, oeuvre. biogeny^, dissogeny^, xenogeny^; tocogony^, vacuolization. edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit. V. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... a short digression. In the case of animals and plants with separated sexes, it is of course obvious that two individuals must always (with the exception of the curious and not well understood cases of parthenogenesis) unite for each birth; but in the case of hermaphrodites this is far from obvious. Nevertheless there is reason to believe that with all hermaphrodites two individuals, either occasionally or habitually, concur for the reproduction ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin



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