Apomictic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or characterised by apomixis.

    "I have found no definite reports of apomictic turbellarians, although the stenostomid Rhynchoscolex is said neither to reproduce by fission (but see Pennak, 1978) nor to possess a male system (Sterrer and Rieger, 1974)."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis wordnet

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parthenogeneticagamicagamogeneticagamousapomicticalasexual

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"I have found no definite reports of apomictic turbellarians, although the stenostomid Rhynchoscolex is said neither to reproduce by fission (but see Pennak, 1978) nor to possess a male system (Sterrer and Rieger, 1974)."

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