Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun androgenesis

1 sense of androgenesis

Sense 1
androgenesis, androgeny -- (male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization)
       => parthenogenesis, parthenogeny -- (process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods)