Agamous

2 definitions found

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

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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