Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring or reproducing without the union of male and female cells; asexual or parthenogenetic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- In botany, of or pertaining to theAgamæ or cryptogams.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Produced without sexual union.
- adjective Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Occurring without the
union of male and femalegametes ;asexual
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Most Mariamman temples are humble shrines in villages, where non-Brahmins act as priest using non-agamic rituals.
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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.
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These summer forms are known as the stem mothers or agamic females.
An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman
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Budding: applied to that form of agamic reproduction found in plant lice.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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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.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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Mathematics should be taught only in its rudiments, and those with special talents or tastes for it should go to agamic schools.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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Finally, they may become infested with cystic tapeworms or the agamic stage of a strongyle (_Strongylus edentatus_).
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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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.
An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman
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The ttyle is nervous and correct, the fentiments are manly, and the author's general notions of the efleoce of oar conttuuuon are juft: if ne in fome places feems to/peak of it With lets admiration than in others, it may be becaufe he was ihen under the influence of indignation agamic men who, while they flood up for the letter of the conftitut ion, were re - gardiefs of its fpirit, — as if all its excellence con lilted in forms and not in 1'abftancc.
The Monthly Review 1795
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