agamous Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
    agamic; agamogenetic; parthenogenetic; apomictic.

WordNet


Ag"a*mous adjective
Etymology
Gr. unmarried; priv. + marriage.
Definitions
  1. (Biol.) Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In (Bot.), cryptogamous.

Webster 1913