parthenogenetically

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

parthenogenetic +‎ -ally

Adverb[edit]

parthenogenetically (not comparable)

  1. In a parthenogenetic way.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 51:
      In the ideal Amazon society without males, the parthenogenetically created daughter is really the clone of the mother; the society continues down from generation to generation with the timeless values of the Great Mother held intact.