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Definition of Amphimixis
1. Noun. Reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete.
Specialized synonyms: Anisogamy, Isogamy
Generic synonyms: Reproduction
2. Noun. Union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction.
Definition of Amphimixis
1. Noun. sexual reproduction ¹
2. Noun. The union of a male and female gamete ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amphimixis
1. [n -MIXES]
Medical Definition of Amphimixis
1. 1. Union of the paternal and maternal chromatin after impregnation of the ovum. 2. In psychoanalysis, a combination of genital and anal eroticism. Origin: amphi-+ G. Mixis, mingling (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amphimixis
Literary usage of Amphimixis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Evolution Theory by August Weismann (1904)
"But first I should like to refer for a little to the association of amphimixis
with reproduction, which we find in all multicellular organisms, ..."
2. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"... CHAPTER X THE PHENOMENA OF REVERSION IN THEIR RELATION TO amphimixis i.
REVERSION TO RACIAL CHARACTERS IN PLANT-HYBRIDS BY the term reversion, ..."
3. Variation in Animals and Plants by Horace Middleton Vernon (1903)
"... variation—Effect of staleness and of comparative maturity of sex-cells on the
characters of organisms —amphimixis—Identical twins—Transplantation of ova ..."
4. Darwinism To-day: A Discussion of Present-day Scientific Criticism of the by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"... while the favourable combinations which amphimixis produces are retained, and
there finally remain only the advantageously varying combinations or, ..."
5. Heredity and Selection in Sociology by Georges Chatterton-Hill (1907)
"The share of the Amoeba in the constitution of the germ-plasm of the human being
must necessarily be infinitesimal; during the course of ages amphimixis and ..."
6. The Laws of Life: Principles of Evolution, Heredity and Eugenics. A Popular by William Marion Goldsmith (1922)
"... Adaptation and Natural Selection—Variation, Prodigality of Nature, Mutation,
amphimixis, and Hybridization—Induction—Mutilations—Supposed Inheritance of ..."
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