sexual generation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sexual generation
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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The phenomena of inheritance in the sexual generation of hybrids show this clearly.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
It would seem that the reproductive elements are not so completely blended by grafting as by sexual generation.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
On the crab being devoured by the right species of Cephalopod, the merozoites doubtless give rise to the sexual generation again.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
Inferior vegetables and animals propagate by solitary generation only; next order by both; superior by sexual generation alone.
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Erasmus Darwin
In such a typical moss as Funaria, we have the following cycle of developments: The sexual generation is a dioecious leafy structure, having a central elongated axis, with leaves arranged regularly around and along it.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
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