Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing females only: noting those parthenogenetic female insects which have no male progeny: opposed to arrhenotokous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Producing females only; -- said of certain female insects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That produces
female offspring (only)
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Examples
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Although some populations have a classical haplodiploid reproduction system, in other populations queens are produced by thelytokous parthenogenesis, males are produced by a male clonality system and workers are produced sexually.
Naturejobs - All Jobs J Foucaud 2010
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Our results unambiguously confirm the unique reproduction system polymorphism mentioned above and that male clonality is strictly associated with thelytokous parthenogenesis.
Naturejobs - All Jobs J Foucaud 2010
ambyellen commented on the word thelytokous
producing only female offspring
May 27, 2009