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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Arrenotokous, Arrenotoky

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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2
Arrenotokous, Arrenotoky
15428631911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2 — Arrenotokous, Arrenotoky

ARRENOTOKOUS, ARRENOTOKY (from Gr. ἄρρην, male, and τόκος from τίκτειν, to beget), biological terms proposed by Leuckart and Eduard von Siebold to denote those parthenogenetic females which produce male young, while “thelytokous” and “thelytoky” would denote their producing female young.