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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Reproduction by fission, especially in an annelid worm.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In biology, fission as a mode of reproduction; generation by fission.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) Reproduction by fission.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany Alternative form of schizogeny.

Etymologies

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schizo- + -genesis

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