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    APOMIXIS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: apomixes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilizationplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural processes

    Hypernyms ("apomixis" is a kind of...):

    agamogenesis; asexual reproduction (reproduction without the fusion of gametes)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apomixis"):

    apogamy ((botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization)

    parthenocarpy ((botany) the development of a fruit without fertilization or seeds)

    parthenogenesis; parthenogeny (process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods)

    Derivation:

    apomictic ((of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction)

    apomictic; apomictical (of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis)

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