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amphimictically

amphimictically adverb: by means of amphimixis.

Adverb

amphimictically (not comparable)

  1. By means of amphimixis.
    • A great many species, often reported as thelytokous (see, for example, Nur 1990 for the review), in reality combine thelytokous reproduction with amphimixis, producing males amphimictically or parthenogenetically (diploid arrhenotoky and deuterotoky), and these males have, as usual for scale...2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphidinea + Coccinea)”, in Comparative...

Origin of amphimictically

From amphimictic + -ally.

Questions about amphimictically

What does amphimictically mean?
Amphimictically means by means of amphimixis.
What part of speech is amphimictically?
Amphimictically is an adverb.

Words near amphimictically in the dictionary

  1. amphimacer
  2. amphimacers
  3. amphimeriasis
  4. amphimict
  5. amphimictic
  6. amphimictically
  7. amphimicts
  8. amphimixes
  9. amphimixis
  10. amphimorpho
  11. amphimorphos

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