arrenotokousadj.
/arɪˈnɒtəkəs/ (See quot. 1877.)
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gemmiparous1793
gemmiferous1804
agamic1816
zoogenic1842
agamogenetic1858
autogenetic1859
parthenogenetic1860
parthenogenous1869
unsexual1873
monogenous1874
monogonic1876
monogonous1876
arrenotokous1877
gemmative1877
thelytokous1877
parthenogenic1878
heteroblastic1888
blastogenic1889
isogamous1889
paedogenetic1889
monogenic1890
anisogamous1891
monogenetic1900
paedogamous1912
apomictic1913
cytogamous1918
ectogenetic1923
pseudogamous1932
agamospermous1933
impaternate1934
subsexual1937
mictic1950
somatogamous1950
zygogenetic1950
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vii. 446 The terms arrenotokous and thelytokous have been proposed by Leuckart and Von Siebold to denote those parthenogenetic females which produce male and female young respectively.
Derivatives
arreˈnotoky n. ‘that form of parthenogenesis in which the unimpregnated females produce only males’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1880).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1877