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APOMIXIS
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Irregular inflected form: apomixes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization
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)
