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  • 61Heterogamy — Het er*og a*my, n. [See {Heterogamous}.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Bot.) The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; opposed to orthogamy. [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of… …

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  • 62Parthenogenitive — Par the*no*gen i*tive, a. (Biol.) Parthenogenetic. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 63The Blessed Virgin — Virgin Vir gin, n. [L. virgo, inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene, virge, vierge, F. vierge.] 1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid. [1913 Webster] 2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic] Wyclif.… …

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  • 64The Virgin — Virgin Vir gin, n. [L. virgo, inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene, virge, vierge, F. vierge.] 1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid. [1913 Webster] 2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic] Wyclif.… …

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  • 65Virgin — Vir gin, n. [L. virgo, inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene, virge, vierge, F. vierge.] 1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid. [1913 Webster] 2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic] Wyclif. [1913… …

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  • 66Virgin's bower — Virgin Vir gin, n. [L. virgo, inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene, virge, vierge, F. vierge.] 1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid. [1913 Webster] 2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic] Wyclif.… …

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  • 67agamic — adjective Etymology: Greek agamos unmarried, from a + gamos marriage Date: 1850 asexual, parthenogenetic …

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  • 68heterogony — noun Date: circa 1887 1. alternation of generations; especially alternation of a dioecious with a parthenogenetic generation 2. allometry • heterogonic adjective …

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  • 69parthenogenesis — noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek parthenos + Latin genesis genesis Date: 1849 reproduction by development of an unfertilized usually female gamete that occurs especially among lower plants and invertebrate animals • parthenogenetic also… …

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  • 70whiptail — noun Date: 1933 any of various long slender American lizards (genus Cnemidophorus) having a whiplike tail and including some forms that are parthenogenetic …

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