polyembryonic en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English embryonic English polyembryonic From poly- + embryonic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Polyembryonate.
However, the phenomenon of sporadic polyembryony might be underreported for many sexual species because, to my knowledge, no one has searched methodically- using suitable genetic markers- for polyembryonic (clonemate) progeny in nature.
2013, John Avise, Evolutionary Perspectives on Pregnancy, →ISBN, page 157:Polyembryony is common in mango cultivars that originated and are grown in the moist tropics. In Knight et al. (Chapter 3, this volume), there is a survey of the major polyembryonic and monoembryonic mango cultivars.
2009, Richard E. Litz, The Mango: Botany, Production and Uses, →ISBN, page 369: