Definition of Agamous

1. Adjective. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction.


Definition of Agamous

1. a. Having no visible sexual organs; asexual.

Definition of Agamous

1. Adjective. (biology) Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Agamous

1. agamic [adj] - See also: agamic

Medical Definition of Agamous

1. Having no visible sexual organs; asexual, cryptogamous. Origin: Gr. Unmarried; priv. + marriage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Agamous

agamists
agammaglobulinaemia
agammaglobulinaemias
agammaglobulinemia
agammaglobulinemias
agamocytogeny
agamogenetically
agamoid
agamoids
agamont
aganglionic
agapae
agapai
agapanthus
agapanthuses
agape
agape(p)
agapeic
agapes
agar
agar-agar
agar-agars

Literary usage of Agamous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Science and the Arts by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1818)
"On Cryptogamous and agamous Vegetation. From the French ofC. F. BRISSEAU MIRBEL. JL HE subject of cryptogamous and agamous vegetation has been purposely ..."

2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1875)
"... states that Dr. Adler, of Schleswig, has this year published an " epoch-marking " paper upon the subject of agamous reproduction among the ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1872)
"Natural History Question. — It is now a hundred years since the celebrated observations of 0. F. Miiller on agamous reproduction ..."

4. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1872)
"For these reasons, tho Society desires to urge a thorough research, and one answering tho actual demands of science, of agamous reproduction and all the ..."

5. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and edited by [Anonymus AC02893924] (1872)
"Subsequently having found eggs in this presumed agamous ... to lose them subsequently and return to its agamous stage. Malmgren accounted for the genetic ..."

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