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- noun biology A birth (or
vegetal reproduction ) after spontaneous, unfertilizedgamete -development in avirginal mother,parthenogenesis - noun In Christian theology, the
miraculous birth ofChrist from theVirgin Mary
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virgin 'virginal' + birth
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