merogony

American

[muh-rog-uh-nee] / məˈrɒg ə ni /

noun

Embryology.

the development of an embryo from egg fragments lacking the egg nucleus but having an introduced male nucleus.

Other Word Forms

merogonic adjective
merogonous adjective

Etymology

Origin of merogony

First recorded in 1899; mero- + -gony

Example Sentences

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The principal workers in this field have been W. Roux, who in 1894 founded the Archiv f�r Entwickelungsmechanik der Organismen, T. Boveri and Y. Delage who discovered and elucidated the phenomenon of merogony, J. Loeb who discovered artificial parthenogenesis, O. and R. Hertwig, H. Driesch, C. Herbst, E. Maupas, A. Weismann, T.H.

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