A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Parthenogenesis, “reproduction that involves development of a female or rarely of a male gamete without fertilization, that occurs commonly among lower plants and invertebrate animals but rarely as a natural process among seed plants and vertebrates although it may be induced by articifial mechanical or chemical stimulation of the eggs of some vertebrates and that in nature either constitutes the sole form of secual reproduction or alternates with bisexual activities i a pattern adapted to the needs and peculiar life circumstances of the organism; distinguished from asexual reproduction; compare apogamy (WIII); (in fungi) “the apomictic development of haploid cells (Gaeumann)” (Ainsworth & Bisby): parthenogenesis,-is (s.f.III), abl.sg. parthenogenese, nom. & abl. pl. parthenogeneses;

- regeneratio,-onis (s.f.III) per parthenogenesem, regeneration through parthenogenesis.