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

1 sense of gynogenesis

Sense 1
gynogenesis -- (female parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only maternal chromosomes due to the failure of the sperm to fuse with the egg nucleus)
       => parthenogenesis, parthenogeny -- (process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods)