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MONOGENESIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does monogenesis mean?
• MONOGENESIS (noun)
The noun MONOGENESIS has 1 sense:
1. asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores
Familiarity information: MONOGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
monogenesis; sporulation
Hypernyms ("monogenesis" is a kind of...):
agamogenesis; asexual reproduction (reproduction without the fusion of gametes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monogenesis"):
heterospory (the development of both microspores and megaspores)
homospory (the development of a single kind of asexual spores)
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