merogony

[ muh-rog-uh-nee ]

noun

, Embryology.

1. the development of an embryo from egg fragments lacking the egg nucleus but having an introduced male nucleus.

Other Words From

• mer·o·gon·ic [mer-, uh, -, gon, -ik], me·rogo·nous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of merogony¹

First recorded in 1899; mero- + -gony

Example Sentences

The principal workers in this field have been W. Roux, who in 1894 founded the Archiv f�r Entwickelungsmechanik der Organismen, T. Boveri and Y. Delage who discovered and elucidated the phenomenon of merogony, J. Loeb who discovered artificial parthenogenesis, O. and R. Hertwig, H. Driesch, C. Herbst, E. Maupas, A. Weismann, T.H.

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