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apomictic, a. Biol.|æpəʊˈmɪktɪk| Also apoˈmictical. [f. apo- + Gr. µικτός mixed + -ic; see next.] Pertaining to or produced by apomixis; reproducing without sexual fusion. Hence apoˈmictically adv., by means of apomixis.
1913Amer. Naturalist XLVII. 283 Parthenogenesis, the apomictic origin of a sporophyte from an egg. 1920Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumberland & Durham V. 278 We have on the one hand the tetraploid Pimpinellifoliae microgenes pollinated normally, and on the other the tetraploid Villosae apomictical... It is a reasonable assumption to make that the apomictical roses are derived from the sexual types. 1921Ann. Bot. XXXV. 183 Seedlings showing hybrid characters have originated from flowers, pollinated with foreign pollen, growing on the same bush as those castrated, and producing seed apomictically. 1939Nature 4 Mar. 383/1 Embryos sometimes arise apomictically from unfertilized eggs. Ibid. 22 Apr. 684/1 Reproduction may be..entirely non-sexual, apomictic. |