impregnated
adjective
made pregnant.
unimpregnated
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a word derived from
impregnated.
Example Sentences
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Parthenogenesis, name given to asexual reproduction, that is, to reproduction of plants or animals by means of unimpregnated germs or ova.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
Thirty-six long-styled flowers of P. angustifolia were also illegitimately fertilised during two seasons with pollen from the long-styled P. officinalis, but all these flowers dropped off unimpregnated.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin
At eleven in the forenoon, we placed ourselves opposite a hive containing an unimpregnated queen five days old.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
The importance of distinguishing between the membranes of the unimpregnated ovulum and those of the ripe seed, must be sufficiently evident from what has been already stated.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Phillip Parker King
A worker bee may be an offspring of an unimpregnated queen bee.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
