fundatrigenia

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noun

An offspring of a fundatrix.

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Meanings

nounfundatrigenia (plural fundatrigeniae)

plural fundatrigeniae

  1. An offspring of a fundatrix.

    At about this time some of the fundatrices mature and give birth, parthenogenetically, to the first fundatrigeniae.

    1936 November, Hilgardia, volume 10, number 7, page 184
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    R. cerasifoliae (Fitch) and R. viridis, new species, have essentially the same type of life cycle, but in the former fundatrigeniae are often produced throughout much of the summer, while in the latter this stage is never produced.

    1956, Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, page 7

    Thus, in the autumn of 1958, no sexual forms were observed in our cultures, of which e.g. strain No. 10 does descend from one fundatrigenia taken from a peachtree in Scania in May, 1954, No. 105 from one on a peachtree in Scania in May, 1956.

    1959, Annals of the Agricultural College of Sweden, page 470

Origin

  1. Ancient Greek-γενής“born”
  2. Englishfundatrigenia

From New Latin, from fundatri- (from fundātrīx) + -genia (irregular from Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs, “born”)).

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