self-fertilizing
- a word derived from self-fertilization.
Example Sentences
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Anatomically female but capable of self-fertilizing with their own supply of sperm, hermaphrodites remain emphatically uninterested in mating -- until their sperm supply runs dry.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
He added that a single hermaphroditic, self-fertilizing jeffdanielsi can produce 160 babies in its lifespan.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2022
The World Economic Forum and Scientific American team up to highlight technological advances that could change the world--from self-fertilizing crops, on-demand drug manufacturing, breath-sensing diagnostics to 3D-printed houses.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 14, 2021
Libah’s community hails from Somalia’s lush Jubba valley, where the weather was temperate, the soil so rich it was practically self-fertilizing, and the Jubba river provided an endless gift of water.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2021
Some mutant grapes that normally would have had separate male and female individuals also became self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
