Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Variant of agamic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- adj. biology Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Biol.), (Bot.) Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. cryptogamous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
Etymologies
- a- + -gamous (Wiktionary)
Examples
“prolonged nutrition," a surplus, as we see so plainly in the lower forms of agamous generation (budding, division).”
Lists
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Logolepsy
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word list
abligurition, humectant, absterge, dactylonomy, agamous, olecranon, geosmin, sphallolalia, aquiline, obloquy, quiescent, fother and 17 more...
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empyreal, quiddity, esthetic, crepitation, dénouement, feuilleton, macule, napthalene, förutse, verdure, montane, decalcomania and 105 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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rememberers
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epeolatrist according to oxford: "an adjective meaning 'unmarried'." Jun 22, 2009