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Adjective: parthenogenetic  `paa(r)-thu-now-ju'ne-tik
  1. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
    "The writer has succeeded in raising over twenty of these parthenogenetic frogs"
    - agamic, agamous, agamogenetic, apomictic

See also: asexual, nonsexual, parthenogenesis

Encyclopedia: Parthenogenetic

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Parthenium
Parthenium argentatum
Parthenium hysterophorus
Parthenium integrifolium
parthenocarpy
Parthenocissus
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Parthenocissus tricuspidata
parthenogenesis
parthenogenetic
parthenogeny
Parthenon
parthenote
Parthia
Parthian
parti pris
Parti Québécois
partial
partial abortion
partial breach