Agamogenetic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Agamogenetic \Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic\, n. (Biol.)
     Reproducing or produced without sexual union. --
     {Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete


           return to the primitive stock.           --Huxley.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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