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GYNOGENESIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Female parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only maternal chromosomes due to the failure of the sperm to fuse with the egg nucleus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("gynogenesis" is a kind of...):
parthenogenesis; parthenogeny (process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods)
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