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单词 self-impregnation
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self-impregnation
self-impregnation n.
Brit. /ˌsɛlfɪmprɛɡˈneɪʃn/
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U.S. /ˌsɛlfˌɪmˌprɛɡˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
(a) fertilization of an animal, esp. a hermaphroditic animal, by male gametes from the same individual; (b) artificial insemination of a woman, esp. that she carries out on herself.
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1809 Universal Mag. Mar. 229/2 Is the drone, or the working bee, the male: or has the queen the power of self-impregnation?
1946 Amer. Midland Naturalist 36 480 Snails kept in solitary culture were observed attempting..autocopulation, the penis being extended to the female genital pore. Whether actual flow of sperm occurred could not be observed, but this indicates that self-impregnation may possibly occur in this manner.
1999 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 20 Dec. 10 Denied the chance to use her dead husband's sperm in this country, [she] took it abroad for self-impregnation.
2015 R. Cowen Common Ground 91 Over time an even wilder fertility myth took hold: that the hare was capable of self-impregnation.
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