apomicticadj.
/apəʊˈmɪktɪk/ Biology.
Pertaining to or produced by apomixis; reproducing without sexual fusion.
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gemmiparous1793
gemmiferous1804
agamic1816
zoogenic1842
agamogenetic1858
autogenetic1859
parthenogenetic1860
parthenogenous1869
unsexual1873
monogenous1874
monogonic1876
monogonous1876
arrenotokous1877
gemmative1877
thelytokous1877
parthenogenic1878
heteroblastic1888
blastogenic1889
isogamous1889
paedogenetic1889
monogenic1890
anisogamous1891
monogenetic1900
paedogamous1912
apomictic1913
cytogamous1918
ectogenetic1923
pseudogamous1932
agamospermous1933
impaternate1934
subsexual1937
mictic1950
somatogamous1950
zygogenetic1950
1913 Amer. Naturalist 47 283 Parthenogenesis, the apomictic origin of a sporophyte from an egg.
1920 Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumberland & Durham 5 278 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.
1939 Nature 22 Apr. 684/1 Reproduction may be..entirely non-sexual, apomictic.
Derivatives
apoˈmictically adv. by means of apomixis.
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viviparously1822
agamically1858
agamogenetically1868
metagenetically1868
parthenogenetically1874
parthenogenically1911
apomictically1921
pseudosexually1964
1921 Ann. Bot. 35 183 Seedlings showing hybrid characters have originated from flowers, pollinated with foreign pollen, growing on the same bush as those castrated, and producing seed apomictically.
1939 Nature 4 Mar. 383/1 Embryos sometimes arise apomictically from unfertilized eggs.
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adj.1913