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Sphaerospore :: Sphaerospore (n.) One of the nonsexual spores found in red algae; a tetraspore.

Platonical :: Platonical (a.) Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical..

Nonsexual :: Nonsexual (a.) Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.

Sporophore :: Sporogony (n.) The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

Tetraspore :: Tetraspore (n.) A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds..

Sporophoric :: Sporophore (n.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore..

Oophore :: Oophore (n.) An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant..

Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation..

Parthenogenesis :: Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle..

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