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Definition of Agamous
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 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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Agamous
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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