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The best crop is the first of the season, which consists of the unimpregnated females; the later crops contain an admixture of young insects and skins, which contain proportionally little colouring matter.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

PARTHENOGENESIS.—The production of living organisms from unimpregnated eggs or seeds.

From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles

I should very much like to examine the capsule of the unimpregnated flower of A. Loddigesii.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Cleveland describes a discharge of an anomalous deciduous membrane during pregnancy which was probably from the unimpregnated half of a double uterus.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

The shepherds about Mount Œta rub the udders of unimpregnated goats with nettles, and thus obtain abundance of milk from them.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William