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  • noun biology A birth (or vegetal reproduction) after spontaneous, unfertilized gamete-development in a virginal mother, parthenogenesis
  • noun In Christian theology, the miraculous birth of Christ from the Virgin Mary

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virgin 'virginal' + birth

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