unfertilized
Speech parts
1. unfertilized - Adjective
2. unfertilized - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
not having been fertilized
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Phrases with the word
Examples
an unfertilized egg
Apomixis mainly occurs in two forms: In gametophytic apomixis, the embryo arises from an unfertilized egg within a diploid embryo sac that was formed without completing meiosis.
A good argument can be made that allowing any egg to pass unfertilized is murder.
Due to the combined maximum survival time of an unfertilized egg (1 day) and sperm (5 days), there is only a small portion of a woman’s cycle where she can actually get pregnant.
When plants are left unfertilized, as in the case of marijuana, the pistils can be indicators of plant ripeness.
Frog species that changed from the use of larger to smaller phytotelmata have evolved a strategy of providing their offspring with nutritive but unfertilized eggs.