Definition of Paedogenetic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Paedogenetic

1. Producing young while in the immature or larval state; said of certain insects, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paedogenetic

paediatric nursing
paediatric radiology
paediatrician
paediatricians
paediatrics
paediatrist
paediatry
paedo-
paedobaptism
paedobaptisms
paedobaptist
paedobaptists
paedogeneses
paedogenesis
paedogenetic (current term)
paedogenic
paedologist
paedology
paedomorphic
paedomorphism
paedomorphisms
paedomorphoses
paedomorphosis

Literary usage of Paedogenetic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"One of the first paedogenetic individuals observed was 3195. ... This paedogenetic nymph gave birth to 8 young the first day of reproduction, 4 the second, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1914)
"These were placed in a plaster cell and on February 8 the colony was found to be maturing into paedogenetic individuals. From these latter a number of ..."

3. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1913)
"... in one colony of numerous larvae, pupa;, paedogenetic reproductive form and winged adults ready for issuance, does not seem to have been duplicated. ..."

4. Entomology, with Special Reference to Its Ecological Aspects by Justus Watson Folsom (1922)
"After several successive generations of this kind the resulting larvae pupate and form normal male and female flies . FIG. 189.—Young paedogenetic larvae of ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"If, on the contrary, the maturation process is wanting in paedogenetic development, it would be more reasonable to place ..."

6. Report (1913)
"paedogenetic Larvae of Insects. RW Hegner. Fifteen minutes will be allowed for each paper unless otherwise •specified. The time may be extended by vote of ..."

7. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"Several species of this family are paedogenetic (see p. 80). The midges (CHIRONOMID^:) are harmless little insects resembling mosquitoes. ..."

8. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"The most frequently observed examples of paedogenetic reproduction are by larvae ; but that pupae also are sometimes capable of reproduction is shown by the ..."

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