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Definition of Agamic
1. Adjective. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction.
Similar to: Asexual, Nonsexual
Derivative terms: Agamete, Agamogenesis, Apomixis, Parthenogenesis
Definition of Agamic
1. a. Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs.
Definition of Agamic
1. Adjective. Occurring without the union of male and female gametes; asexual ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agamic
1. asexual [adj] - See also: asexual
Medical Definition of Agamic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Agamic
Literary usage of Agamic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Senescence and Rejuvenescence by Charles Manning Child (1915)
"THE RELATION BETWEEN agamic REPRODUCTION AND REJUVENESCENCE IN PROTOZOA The ...
In these and other papers the author records the progress of the agamic ..."
2. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"Nevertheless, this non-sexual or agamic reproduction must be considered ...
but that many other Insects ordinarily multiply by ' agamic' propagation, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"There seems to be no published record of the young of wingless agamic female
Aphids being born in a pellicle as just described. Buckton gives five or six ..."
4. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1888)
"These in due time give birth to young, which soon become agamic, egg-laying mothers
... Thus is produced the second, or migrating, agamic, winged form (Fig. ..."
5. Individuality in Organisms by Charles Manning Child (1915)
"DEVELOPMENTAL GRADIENTS IN agamic AND EXPERIMENTAL REPRODUCTION Among the ...
Although these agamic reproductive processes differ more or less widely from ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1878)
"agamic REPRODUCTION AMONG THE ... THE theory of perpetual agamic reproduction of
certain species of Hymenopterous ..."
7. Evolution, racial and habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"... and agamic Evolution. A complete classification of the factors of organic
evolution must include the principles producing differentiation of organisms ..."
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