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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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology The alternation of
sexual andasexual methods ofreproduction .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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.
Yet Another Data Point Zoe Brain 2006
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