"thelygeny" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "arrhenogeny"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "thelygeny (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Zoology",
          "orig": "en:Zoology",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "thelygenous"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Graham Bell, The Masterpiece of Nature :: The Evolution and Genetics of Sexuality, page 441",
          "text": "If monogeny is determined exclusively by a cytoplasmic factor, then it is easy to see that the factor will either die out (if it causes arrhenogeny) or will become fixed and thereby sterilize the population (if it causes thelygeny).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, R. Reinboth, Intersexuality in the Animal Kingdom",
          "text": "Both series of experiments show the possibility of an experimental induction for intersexuality and thelygeny.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Rigomar Rieger, Glossary of Genetics: Classical and Molecular, page 335",
          "text": "monogeny — the production of only male (“arrhenogeny”) or female (“thelygeny”) offspring.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The production of only female offspring."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "monogeny"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-thelygeny-en-noun-IghIfUxg",
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female#English"
        ],
        [
          "offspring",
          "offspring#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "reproduction",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology, reproduction) The production of only female offspring."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thelygeny"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "arrhenogeny"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "thelygenous"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "thelygeny (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "monogeny"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁(y)-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Zoology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Graham Bell, The Masterpiece of Nature :: The Evolution and Genetics of Sexuality, page 441",
          "text": "If monogeny is determined exclusively by a cytoplasmic factor, then it is easy to see that the factor will either die out (if it causes arrhenogeny) or will become fixed and thereby sterilize the population (if it causes thelygeny).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, R. Reinboth, Intersexuality in the Animal Kingdom",
          "text": "Both series of experiments show the possibility of an experimental induction for intersexuality and thelygeny.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Rigomar Rieger, Glossary of Genetics: Classical and Molecular, page 335",
          "text": "monogeny — the production of only male (“arrhenogeny”) or female (“thelygeny”) offspring.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The production of only female offspring."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female#English"
        ],
        [
          "offspring",
          "offspring#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "reproduction",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology, reproduction) The production of only female offspring."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thelygeny"
}