parthenogenesis

Referring to various aspects of asexual reproduction:; (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 monogenesis, metagenesis, and heterogamy.countableuncountableusually

• 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.

Referring to various aspects of asexual reproduction:; Asexual reproduction in toto; agamogenesis.uncountableusually

• An all female race, the asari reproduce through a form of parthenogenesis. Each asari can attune her nervous system to that of another individual of any gender, and of any species, to reproduce. This capability has led to unseemly and inacc
• As an “all-female” humanoid species not bound to the traditional forms of mating, in that they reproduce through a form of telepathic parthenogenesis, the design of the Asari collapses boundaries of sex and sexuality. The Asari are a specie

figurative uses of the biological sensescountableuncountableusually

• 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

Virgin birth, in reference to the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ.uncountableusually

• So one might reasonably be led to hold, for instance, that the parthenogenesis of Christ does not beget faith in Christ […]
• His theology offers four objections on dogmatic grounds commonly adduced by contemporary Protestant criticism to cast doubt on Mary’s parthenogenesis.