Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Occurring or reproducing without the union of male and female cells; asexual or parthenogenetic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Asexual: in zoology, applied to reproduction without the congress of individuals of opposite sexes, as by fission, budding, encystment, or parthenogenesis; used also of ova capable of germination without impregnation. The word is of general application to asexual reproduction, but has some special applicability to the phenomena of alternate generation or discontinuous development which may intervene in ordinary sexual reproduction. Opposed to gamic. See
agamogenesis . - In botany, of or pertaining to theAgamæ or cryptogams.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Biol.) Produced without sexual union.
- adj. Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
Etymologies
- From Late Latin agamus, unmarried, from Greek agamos : a-, without; see a-1 + gamos, marriage; see -gamy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For example, at the Samayapuram temple near the shore of river Cauvery, rich agamic traditions are followed and all rituals are performed by Gurukkal of Brahmins.”
“Most Mariamman temples are humble shrines in villages, where non-Brahmins act as priest using non-agamic rituals.”
“Budding: applied to that form of agamic reproduction found in plant lice.”
“These summer forms are known as the stem mothers or agamic females.”
“These institutions may perhaps come to be training stations of a new-old type, the agamic or even agenic woman, be she nut, maid -- old or young -- nun, school-teacher, or bachelor woman.”
“Mathematics should be taught only in its rudiments, and those with special talents or tastes for it should go to agamic schools.”
“Finally, they may become infested with cystic tapeworms or the agamic stage of a strongyle (_Strongylus edentatus_).”
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“[Illustration: Common apple aphis showing a winged and wingless agamic summer forms at a and c, one with wing pads formed at b, and a recently born young at d.”
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