polyembryo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One of a set of genetically identical embryos that develop from a single fertilized egg.
Example Sentences
- "But sour and swee oranges have a number of characters in common -- small-panicled inflorescences, tight peel, whitish polyembryo, etc."
- "A complicating feature of conifers, when estimating the number of lethals, is that polyembryos are common during seed development."
- "This method is effective because unlike other fructiferous plants, citrus possesses the polyembryo property, thus obtaining from a single seed more than one plant with identical properties to the parent plant."
- "Mitochondria, like the phospholipids, have been investigated when the polyembryo of Ageniaspis had the form of a tube (string)."
- "The phenomenon, nevertheless, is probably greatly underreported, because to my knowledge no one has searched methodically—using suitable nuclear genetic markers—for vertebrate polyembryos in nature."
- "Furthermore, in certain species having polyembryos development (e.g., armadillo), all the embryos that have develope from a single fertilized egg are of the same sex."