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单词 agamospermy
释义

agamospermyn.

Brit. /əˈɡamə(ʊ)ˌspəːrmi/, /ɛɪˈɡamə(ʊ)ˌspəːrmi/, /ˈaɡəmə(ʊ)ˌspəːmi/, U.S. /eɪˈɡæməˌspərmi/, /ˈæɡəmoʊˌspərmi/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with aborrowing from Greek, combined with an English element; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: Greek ἄγαμος , Greek σπέρμα , -y suffix3.
Etymology: < ancient Greek ἄγαμος unmarried (see agamous adj.) + σπέρμα seed (see sperm n.) + -y suffix3, after German Agamospermie (G. Täckholm 1922, in Acta Horti Bergiani 7 372). Compare earlier agamospermous adj.
Botany.
Asexual reproduction occurring in certain plants in which seeds are produced from unfertilized ovules.
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adosculation1682
autogeny?1818
gemmation1836
parthenogenesis1849
virgin production1849
rejuvenescence1853
agamogenesis1857
monogeny1857
autogenesis1858
homogenesis1858
proliferation1864
monogenesis1866
swarming1867
paedogenesis1870
monogony1873
virginal generation1879
division1880
monogenesy1890
parthenogeny1890
anisogamy1891
isogamy1891
paragamy1891
separation1891
paedogenesis1892
parthenism1892
heterogamy1894
thelytoky1895
flagellation1898
cytogamy1899
pseudogamy1900
tychoparthenogenesis1900
syngamy1904
pseudogamy1907
ectogenesis1909
paedogamy1910
apomixis1913
progenesis1934
agamospermy1939
mixis1944
somatogamy1949
decapitation-
1939 Hereditas 25 289 According to the terminology introduced by Edman (1931)..agamospermy comprises the phenomena of diplospory, apospory and nucellar embryony.
1958 F. C. Elliott Plant Breeding & Cytol. i. 41 Apomictic reproduction may be divided into reproduction by means of seeds (agamospermy) and vegetative formations such as bulbils, runners, etc. (vegetative reproduction).
1979 Nature 22 Mar. 306/3 Ultrastructural work has also thrown light on the control of apospory, a form of agamospermy (seeds without sex) in the New Zealand grass Cordateria.
2005 M. Fenner & K.Thompson Ecol. of Seeds i. 3 The advantages of agamospermy are not well established. It may be useful in certain circumstances to have the benefits of seeds..without the costs of sexual reproduction.

Derivatives

agamoˈspermic adj.
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1940 Hereditas 26 176 A single Swiss agamospermic strain was, indeed, found to have 33 as its typical chromosome number.
1974 New Phytologist 73 1243 Pseudogamy is a type of agamospermic reproduction in which seed development is stimulated by pollination although the male nucleus does not fuse with the egg.
2010 B. D. Booth et al. Invasive Plant Ecol. (ed. 2) v. 67 A high population of the species in dandelions, hawkweeds (Hieracium spp.) and raspberries are also agamospermic.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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