Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word AGAMOUS
AGAMOUS
Definitions of AGAMOUS
- Having no marital partner or pair-bonded mate; being neither monogamous (pair-bonded) nor polygamous.
- (biology) Synonym of agamic: asexual (of reproduction: occurring without union of male and female gametes).
- (biology) Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using AGAMOUS in a Sentence
Among the plankton-worms, collected at the above-named station, I met with a male Heteronereis, that is characterized by having in the anterior (agamous) body-region, the notopodial fascicle represented by a single, stout, yellow bristle, with a dark brown, hook-shaped apex; the neuropodial fascicle has its usual appearance and contains in its dorsal part some homogomph setigerous bristles and some heterogomph falcigerous ones, whereas ventrally there occur only falcigerous setae, with a terminal piece, that is ciliated along its whole border.
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