parthenogenesis

Etymology
From, from and.

Noun

 * 1)  (An instance of) reproduction by the development of a single gamete (an ovum or ovule) without fertilisation by a gamete of the opposite sex; compare, , and.
 * 2) * 2008 October 15, "Virgin Shark Gives Birth", AFP via Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
 * Scientists say the birth is the second confirmed instance of a shark being conceived by parthenogenesis, a process in which an unfertilised egg develops into a new individual.
 * 1)  Asexual reproduction in toto; agamogenesis.
 * 2)  figurative uses of the biological senses
 * 3) * 1870: James Russell Lowell, Among My Books, series I, Shakespeare Once More, page 223
 * We may learn, to be sure, plenty of lessons from Shakespeare. We are not likely to have kingdoms to divide, crowns foretold us by weird sisters, a father’s death to avenge, or to kill our wives from jealously ; but Lear may teach us to draw the line more clearly between a wise generosity and a loose-handed weakness of giving ; Macbeth, how one sin involves another, and forever another, by a fatal parthenogenesis, and that the key which unlocks forbidden doors to our will or passion leaves a stain on the hand, that may not be so dark as blood, but that will not out ; Hamlet, that all the noblest gifts of person, temperament, and mind slip like sand through the grasp of an infirm purpose ; Othello, that the perpetual silt of some one weakness, the eddies of a suspicious temper depositing their one impalpable layer after another, may build up a shoal on which an heroic life and an otherwise magnanimous nature may bilge and go to pieces.
 * 1)  Virgin birth, in reference to the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ.
 * 1) * 1870: James Russell Lowell, Among My Books, series I, Shakespeare Once More, page 223
 * We may learn, to be sure, plenty of lessons from Shakespeare. We are not likely to have kingdoms to divide, crowns foretold us by weird sisters, a father’s death to avenge, or to kill our wives from jealously ; but Lear may teach us to draw the line more clearly between a wise generosity and a loose-handed weakness of giving ; Macbeth, how one sin involves another, and forever another, by a fatal parthenogenesis, and that the key which unlocks forbidden doors to our will or passion leaves a stain on the hand, that may not be so dark as blood, but that will not out ; Hamlet, that all the noblest gifts of person, temperament, and mind slip like sand through the grasp of an infirm purpose ; Othello, that the perpetual silt of some one weakness, the eddies of a suspicious temper depositing their one impalpable layer after another, may build up a shoal on which an heroic life and an otherwise magnanimous nature may bilge and go to pieces.
 * 1)  Virgin birth, in reference to the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: безполово размножаване
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 單性生殖
 * Finnish:, neitseellinen lisääntyminen
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: partanaigineas
 * Japanese: 単為生殖
 * Kazakh: ұрықтанбай даму
 * Korean: 단위생식(單爲生殖)
 * Polish:, dzieworództwo
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swahili: mimbapweke
 * Tagalog: isahangmulaan, isahangsuplingan
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: партеногене́з


 * Bulgarian: непорочно зачатие
 * Finnish: neitseestä syntyminen
 * Irish: partanaigineas