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  • adjective Not fertilized

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  • adjective not having been fertilized

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Examples

  • The only thing I can compare it to, after having read the "unfertilized" comments in your absence was -- when the band at a wedding comes back after a short break.

    Cara Community 2008

  • Male ants are produced from an unfertilized egg and only have half a complement of genes.

    At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

  • "Without Edwards there would be no market for oocytes (unfertilized eggs); without Edwards there would be no freezers full of embryos waiting to be transplanted into uteruses or, more likely, to be used for research or else die abandoned and forgotten by all," Carrasco said.

    Vatican Expresses 'Perplexity' Over Nobel Awarded To IVF Creator Clay Chiles 2010

  • "Without Edwards there would be no market for oocytes (unfertilized eggs); without Edwards there would be no freezers full of embryos waiting to be transplanted into uteruses or, more likely, to be used for research or else die abandoned and forgotten by all," Carrasco said.

    Vatican Expresses 'Perplexity' Over Nobel Awarded To IVF Creator Clay Chiles 2010

  • "Without Edwards there would be no market for oocytes (unfertilized eggs); without Edwards there would be no freezers full of embryos waiting to be transplanted into uteruses or, more likely, to be used for research or else die abandoned and forgotten by all," Carrasco said.

    Vatican Expresses 'Perplexity' Over Nobel Awarded To IVF Creator Clay Chiles 2010

  • Every individual bdelloid is a female that produces unfertilized eggs from which more females hatch and so on.

    Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009

  • But even granting full civil rights to fertilized eggs is a half-measure; as Kristen Schaal recently pointed out on The Daily Show, women's unfertilized eggs are crying out albeit softly for representation.

    David Misch: Votes for Zygotes! David Misch 2011

  • Male ants are produced from an unfertilized egg and only have half a complement of genes.

    At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

  • But even granting full civil rights to fertilized eggs is a half-measure; as Kristen Schaal recently pointed out on The Daily Show, women's unfertilized eggs are crying out albeit softly for representation.

    David Misch: Votes for Zygotes! David Misch 2011

  • "Without Edwards there would be no market for oocytes (unfertilized eggs); without Edwards there would be no freezers full of embryos waiting to be transplanted into uteruses or, more likely, to be used for research or else die abandoned and forgotten by all," Carrasco said.

    Vatican Expresses 'Perplexity' Over Nobel Awarded To IVF Creator Clay Chiles 2010

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