Definition of Monogony

1. asexual reproduction [n MONOGONIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monogony

monogermane
monogerminal
monoglot
monoglots
monoglottism
monoglucosylated
monoglyceride
monoglycerides
monoglycosyl
monoglycosylated
monogon
monogonal
monogoneutic
monogonont
monogons
monogram
monogramed
monograming
monogrammal
monogrammatic
monogramme
monogrammed
monogrammer
monogrammers
monogrammes
monogrammic
monogramming
monogrammous
monograms

Literary usage of Monogony

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1904)
"But in many of the lower animals and most of the plants we find also asexual multiplication, or monogony, by cleavage or budding. In the lowest organisms, ..."

2. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"monogony Defined.—The chief characteristic of asexual reproduction is the fact that only a single organism is necessary. But since, in certain modes of ..."

3. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"All Monera propagate themselves only in a non-sexual manner by monogony; and in the simplest case, by that kind of monogony which we place at the head of ..."

4. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1905)
"The cycle in the human being is known as the asexual cycle, or the monogony; while the primary cycle carried on in the viscera of the insect is called the ..."

5. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1875)
"It certainly cannot be affirmed °f all these organisms that they reproduce by monogony to the of a true sexual process, and as the life-history of only ave ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Asexual reproduction, or monogony, consists in the formation of new individuals by division of an old one. In one-celled organisms and in the constituent ..."

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