- a word derived from fertilize.
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Unfertilized eggs, however, do not fare so well: even when they're cryoprotected, their fragile membranes--or even worse, their chromosomes--are often damaged during freezing.
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Unfertilized eggs when developing into embryos are equivalent to buds, separated from the parent-plant and planted for themselves.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
Clover and Timothy Unfertilized at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station Yielded 2,460 pounds per acre 10 II.
From Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement by Agee, Alva