PARTHENOCARPY

Pronunciation (US):

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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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