Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
MONOGENESIS
monogenesis, sporulation
(noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
monogenesis (uncountable)
(anthropology) The theory that mankind originated with a single ancestor or ancestral couple.
(linguistics) The theory that all languages, or a particular set of languages, originated from a single source.
(biology, medicine) Development of the ovum from a parent like itself.
(biology, medicine) Asexual/nonsexual reproduction, which involves only one parent.
The emergence from a single cause.
Antonyms
• polygenesis
Anagrams
• nomogenesis
Source: Wiktionary
Mon`o*gen"e*sis, n. Etym: [Mono- + genesis.]
1. Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism. Dana. Haeckel.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction. Haeckel.
3. (Biol.)
Definition: The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to metagenesis. E. van Beneden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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