What is the production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle called?
parthenogenesis — (Bot.) The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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