agamous

2 definitions found

agamous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Agamous \Ag"a*mous\, a. [Gr. 'a`gamos unmarried; 'a priv. +
     ga`mos marriage.] (Biol.)
     Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In (Bot.),
     cryptogamous.
     [1913 Webster]

agamous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  agamous
      adj 1: (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and
             female gametes in reproduction [syn: agamic, agamous,
             agamogenetic, apomictic, parthenogenetic]