Sexual propagation produces seed by breeding male and female cannabis plant or asexual propagation to produce a plant by cloning.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
propagate (verb)transitive verb
1.
to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction
2.
to pass along to offspring
3.
a) to cause to spread out and affect a greater number or greater area - extend
b) to foster growing knowledge of, familiarity with, or acceptance of (as an idea or belief) - publicize
intransitive verb
c) to transmit (as sound or light) through a medium
1.
to multiply sexually or asexually
2.
- increase extend
3.
to travel through space or a material - used of wave energy (as light, sound, or radio waves)
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
propagate (verb)1.
to bring forth offspring
SYNONYMS:
breed, multiply, propagate, reproduceRELATED WORDS:
bear, beget, engender, gender, generate, get, have, mother, parent, produce, sire; hatch, spawn2.
to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people
SYNONYMS:
broadcast, circulate, disseminate, propagateRELATED WORDS:
radiate, sprawl; diffuse, dispense, disperse, dissipate, scatter, sow; communicate, convey, impart, pass (on), transmitNEAR ANTONYMS:
cloak, conceal, enshroud, hide, hold (in), mask, obscure, secrete, shroud, veil; contain, limit, restrictPropagate (Wikipedia)
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Propagation can refer to:
- Chain propagation in a chemical reaction mechanism
- Crack propagation, the growth of a crack during the fracture of materials
- Propaganda, non-objective information used to further an agenda
- Reproduction, and other forms of multiplication or increase
- Plant propagation, the production of more plants
- Propagation of schema, in artificial reproduction
- Software propagation, the distribution of free software
- Wave propagation, the motion of a wave
- Radio propagation, the application of wave propagation to radio communications
- In music
- Propagation (album)
- "Propagation", a song by Lower Dens from the album Nootropics
- "Propagation", a song by Com Truise from the album Iteration
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Propagate (Wiktionary)
English
Etymology
First attested in 1535; from Latin prōpāgātus, perfect passive participle of prōpāgō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒpəˌɡeɪt/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑpəˌɡeɪt/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɔpəˌɡæɪt/, /ˈpɹɒpəˌɡæɪt/
- (Indic) IPA(key):
reproduce, cultivate, breed, multiply, proliferate