parthenogenetic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   produced by or relating to reproduction in which an organism develops from an unfertilized egg

   The isolated population consists entirely of parthenogenetic females that reproduce without mating.

From parthenogenesis + -etic. Parthenogenesis was formed from Greek parthenos ("virgin") and genesis ("origin, generation"), literally "virgin generation," for development from an unfertilized egg.

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