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arrhenotokous

arrhenotokous adjective: relating to arrhenotoky; producing males from unfertilized eggs.

Adjective

arrhenotokous (not comparable)

  1. Relating to arrhenotoky; producing males from unfertilized eggs.
    • Certain wasps and bees are arrhenotokous.
    • In scale insects no examples of cyclic parthenogenesis are known and parthenogenesis can be thelytokous, deuterotokous or arrhenotokous.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...

Forms of arrhenotokous

alternative formarrenotokous

Origin of arrhenotokous

From arrhenotoky + -ous.

Words formed from arrhenotokous

Questions about arrhenotokous

What does arrhenotokous mean?
Arrhenotokous means relating to arrhenotoky; producing males from unfertilized eggs.
What part of speech is arrhenotokous?
Arrhenotokous is an adjective.

Words near arrhenotokous in the dictionary

  1. arrhenoblastoma
  2. arrhenoblastomas
  3. arrhenogenic
  4. arrhenogeny
  5. arrhenotokic
  6. arrhenotokous
  7. arrhenotokously
  8. arrhenotoky
  9. arrhinencephalies
  10. arrhinencephaly
  11. arrhinia

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