| NOUN | process | apomixis | any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization |
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| Meaning | Any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization. | |
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| Narrower | apogamy | (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization |
| parthenocarpy | (botany) the development of a fruit without fertilization or seeds | |
| parthenogenesis, parthenogeny | Process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual | |
| Broader | asexual reproduction, agamogenesis | reproduction without the fusion of gametes |
| Spanish | apomixia, apomixis | |
| Catalan | apomixi, apomixis | |
| Adjectives | apomictic, apomictical | of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis |
| apomictic | (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | |
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