Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The development of an embryo without the occurrence of fertilization.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany: Generally, the absence of sexual reproductive power, the plant perpetuating itself only by vegetative means, as buds, bulbs, etc. In the higher cryptogams, the immediate development of the perfect plant from the prothallus without the usual intervention of sexual organs.
- noun Mating, pairing, or marriage at random, or without conscious or unconscious preference; pangamy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oöspore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany
Asexual reproduction of a fully formed plant directly from a bud.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization
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The last-mentioned case has been regarded as representing an apogamous development of the sporophyte from the gametophyte comparable to the cases of apogamy described in Ferns.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Higher Education (University +) apospory is The development of a gametophyte directly from a sporophyte without the occurrence of meiosis or spore formation and apogamy is Why do leaves turn colors in the fall but not grass?
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