agamic
Americanadjective
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Biology.
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occurring without sexual union; germinating without impregnation; not gamic.
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Botany, Mycology. cryptogamic.
adjective
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- agamically adverb
Etymology
Origin of agamic
1840–50; < Greek ágam ( os ) unwed ( a- a- 6 + gámos marriage) + -ic
Example Sentences
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These summer forms are known as the stem mothers or agamic females.
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Stem-mother: in plant lice; that form hatching from the winter egg, which starts a series of agamic summer generations.
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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.
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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.
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Budding: applied to that form of agamic reproduction found in plant lice.
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