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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Requiring fertilization to reproduce; sexual.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a sexual character; sexual: opposed to agamic: said specifically of an ovum.
  • noun A gamic edge.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Formed as a result of syngamy (union of gametes), sexually produced, sexual.

Etymologies

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From gam (“gamete, syngamy”) +‎ -ic.

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