Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Parthenogenesis in which the egg is activated by sperm, but without fusion of the egg and sperm nuclei.
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- noun
female parthenogenesis in which theembryo contains onlymaternal chromosomes due to thefailure of thesperm tofuse with theegg nucleus
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- noun female parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only maternal chromosomes due to the failure of the sperm to fuse with the egg nucleus
Etymologies
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gyno- + -genesis
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Examples
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Archbishop Cranmer has a nice article about the feminisation of British politics and decries the creation of "‘Department of Energy and Climate Change’, neutering the virility of potency with the gynogenesis of Mother Earth."
Archive 2008-10-01 Not a sheep 2008
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