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▸ noun: (biology, countable, uncountable) (An instance of) reproduction by the development of a single gamete (an ovum or ovule) without fertilisation by a gamete of the opposite sex; compare monogenesis, metagenesis, and heterogamy.
▸ noun: (biology, uncountable, formerly) Asexual reproduction in toto; agamogenesis.
▸ noun: (countable and uncountable) figurative uses of the biological senses
▸ noun: (theology) Virgin birth, in reference to the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ.
Similar:
parthenogeny,
virgin birth,
pathenogenesis,
parthenogen,
parthenote,
parthenoform,
anthogenesis,
unigenesis,
asexual reproduction,
arrhenotoky,
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artificial,
haploid,
natural,
diploid,
male,
cyclical,
true,
facultative,
experimental,
meiotic,
ameiotic
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