agamogenesisn.
/ˌaɡəməˈdʒɛnᵻsɪs/, U.S. /ˌeɪˌɡæməˈdʒɛnəsəs/, /ˌæɡəmoʊˈdʒɛnəsəs/ Biology. Now rare.
Asexual reproduction.
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adosculation1682
autogeny?1818
gemmation1836
parthenogenesis1849
virgin production1849
rejuvenescence1853
agamogenesis1857
monogeny1857
autogenesis1858
homogenesis1858
proliferation1864
monogenesis1866
swarming1867
paedogenesis1870
monogony1873
virginal generation1879
division1880
monogenesy1890
parthenogeny1890
anisogamy1891
isogamy1891
paragamy1891
separation1891
paedogenesis1892
parthenism1892
heterogamy1894
thelytoky1895
flagellation1898
cytogamy1899
pseudogamy1900
tychoparthenogenesis1900
syngamy1904
pseudogamy1907
ectogenesis1909
paedogamy1910
apomixis1913
progenesis1934
agamospermy1939
mixis1944
somatogamy1949
decapitation-
1857 T. H. Huxley in Med. Times & Gaz. 15 Aug. 161/1 The phenomena of ‘Agamogenesis’, or reproduction without sexual congress, are exhibited in a most remarkable manner by many Branchiopoda.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals Introd. 28 In many of the lower forms of life agamogenesis is the common and predominant mode of reproduction.
1939 P. G. Chadwick Death Guard ii. vi. 281 Once the bodies were chopped up sufficiently..agamogenesis, non-sexual reproduction, immediately started in the then uncontrolled cells.
1957 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 9) iii. 705 The various species are either gall-makers, inquilines or parasites, the first-mentioned exhibiting the phenomena of heterogony and agamogenesis.
2000 J. J. Tarin & A. Cano Fertilization Protozoa & Metazoan Animals p. v More than 35 separated forms of reproduction including several types of gamogony, parthenogenesis, agamogenesis, fission and division, and plasmotomy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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