Word Meanings - REPRODUCTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring. Note: There are two distinct methods of reproduction; viz.: asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction . In both cases the new individual is developed from detached portions of

Additional info about word: REPRODUCTION

the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring. Note: There are two distinct methods of reproduction; viz.: asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction . In both cases the new individual is developed from detached portions of the parent organism. In asexual reproduction (gemmation, fission, etc.), the detached portions of the organism develop into new individuals without the intervention of other living matter. In sexual reproduction, the detached portion, which is always a single cell, called the female germ cell, is acted upon by another portion of living matter, the male germ cell, usually from another organism, and in the fusion of the two a new cell is formed, from the development of which arises a new individual. 2. That which is reproduced. (more info) 1. The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced; specifically ,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPRODUCTION)

• Multiplication
• Multiplicity
• plurality
• multitudinousness
• multifariousness
• multitude
• repetition
• reiter ation
• reproduction
• augmentation
• swarming
• teeming

Related words: (words related to REPRODUCTION)

• REITERATE
  Reiterated; repeated.
• TEEMER
  One who teems, or brings forth.
• AUGMENTATION
  A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans. (more info) 1. The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase. 2. The state of being augmented; enlargement. 3. The thing
• TEEMING
  Prolific; productive. Teeming buds and cheerful appear. Dryden.
• PLURALITY
  See PLURALITY (more info) 1. The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.
• REPETITIONAL; REPETITIONARY
  Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.
• REPETITIONER
  One who repeats.
• REPETITION
  The act of repeating, singing, (more info) 1. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak. 2. Recital from memory; rehearsal.
• MULTIFARIOUSNESS
  The fault of improperly uniting in one bill distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them. Burrill. (more info) 1. Multiplied diversity.
• SWARMSPORE
  One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.
• MULTIPLICITY
  The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various; a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or objects. "A multiplicity of goods." South.
• MULTITUDE
  1. A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them. Matt. ix. 36. 2. A great number of persons or things, regarded
• REITERATION
  The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.
• TEEMFUL
  1. Pregnant; prolific. 2. Brimful. Ainsworth.
• REPRODUCTION
  the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring. Note: There are two distinct methods of reproduction; viz.: asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction . In both cases the new individual is developed from detached portions of
• MULTIPLICATION
  The process of repeating, or adding to itself, any given number or quantity a certain number of times; commonly, the process of ascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is
• TEEM
  1. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. If she must teem, Create her child of spleen. Shak. 2. To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to
• REITERATIVE
  A word expressing repeated or reiterated action. 2. A word formed from another, or used to form another, by repetition; as, dillydally.
• REITERATEDLY
  Repeatedly.
• TEEMLESS
  Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth. Dryden.
• COLLINEATION
  The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
• INDIGNATION
  1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious
• ATTENUATION
  1. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. 2. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. 3. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution
• FALCATION
  The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. Sir T. Browne.
• TESTIFICATION
  The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• MIGRATION
  The act of migrating.
• FLUXATION
  The act of fluxing.
• SUMMATION
  The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate. Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect. De Quincey.
• NATATION
  The act of floating on the water; swimming. Sir T. Browne.
• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
• COLONIZATION
  Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• VARIOLATION
  Inoculation with smallpox.
• GRAVIDATION
  Gravidity.
• FACILITATION
  The act of facilitating or making easy.
• INCREPATION
  A chiding; rebuke; reproof. Hammond.
• ENDENIZATION
  The act of naturalizing.
• RIXATION
  A brawl or quarrel.