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PARTHENOCARPY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(botany) the development of a fruit without fertilization or seeds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("parthenocarpy" is a kind of...):
apomixis (any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
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