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Agamous

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having no marital partner or pair-bonded mate; being neither monogamous (pair-bonded) nor polygamous. not-comparable

    "First culture people are strictly monogamous, not agamous or polygamous. Incidentally, it is reasonable to suppose that sex behavior is of much greater importance in the life of the people of advanced culture, owing to the large number of […]"

  2. 2
    Synonym of agamic: asexual (of reproduction: occurring without union of male and female gametes). not-comparable

    "It is now a hundred years since the celebrated observations of O. F. Müller on agamous reproduction (gemmiparity) of the Naiades was published, and although there is no reason to question their perfect accuracy on all essential points, […]"

  3. 3
    Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction wordnet

Etymology

From a- + -gamous.

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