"polyembryo" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1932, Taihoku Teikoku Daigaku. Ri-nogakubu, Memoirs, page 68:",
          "text": "But sour and swee oranges have a number of characters in common -- small-panicled inflorescences, tight peel, whitish polyembryo, etc.",
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          "ref": "1977, M. Thompson Conkle, Knobcone Pine Self Compatibility and Isozyme Inheritance, page 61:",
          "text": "A complicating feature of conifers, when estimating the number of lethals, is that polyembryos are common during seed development.",
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          "ref": "2013, Giovanni Dugo, Ivana Bonaccorsi, Citrus bergamia: Bergamot and its Derivatives, →ISBN, page 26:",
          "text": "This method is effective because unlike other fructiferous plants, citrus possesses the polyembryo property, thus obtaining from a single seed more than one plant with identical properties to the parent plant.",
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        "(botany) A single seed that contains multiple embryos."
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          "ref": "1964, Kazimierz Sembrat, Zoologica Poloniae: Archivum Societatis Zoologorum Poloniae, page 264:",
          "text": "Mitochondria, like the phospholipids, have been investigated when the polyembryo of Ageniaspis had the form of a tube (string).",
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          "ref": "2008, John Avise, Clonality, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The phenomenon, nevertheless, is probably greatly underreported, because to my knowledge no one has searched methodically—using suitable nuclear genetic markers—for vertebrate polyembryos in nature.",
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          "ref": "2010, Rehana Khan, A Textbook of Biotechnology Volume-I Genetics and Molecular Biology, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Furthermore, in certain species having polyembryos development (e.g., armadillo), all the embryos that have develope from a single fertilized egg are of the same sex.",
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