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• reproductive system, animal — Introduction       any of the organ systems by which animals reproduce.       The role of reproduction is to provide for the continued existence of a species; it is the process by which living organisms duplicate themselves. Animals compete with… …   Universalium

• Vegeto-animal — Veg e*to an i*mal, a. (Biol.) Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemblance to similar animal products. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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• GRAINE — La graine est un organe de dissémination résultant de la transformation d’un ovule: après la fécondation, ou même sans accomplissement d’un processus sexuel (agamospermie), un embryon est formé dans le prothalle femelle (gamétophyte); dans un… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

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• sym- — → syn syn , syl , sym . éléments, du gr. sun, avec . sym V. syn . ⇒SYN , SYL , SYM , SY , élém. formant Élém. tiré du gr. « ensemble, en même temps, avec », entrant dans la constr. de nombreux adj. et subst. de la lang. sc. et techn., ainsi que… …   Encyclopédie Universelle