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Asexual   /eɪsˈɛksjuəl/   Listen
Asexual

adjective
1.
Not having or involving sex.  Synonym: nonsexual.  "Asexual reproduction"



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"Asexual" Quotes from Famous Books



... are of the most interest to us because the parasites that cause the malarial fevers and various other diseases belong here. These are dependent on two hosts for their existence, the sexual generation usually occuring in an insect or other invertebrate and the asexual generation ...
— Insects and Diseases - A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread - or Cause some of our Common Diseases • Rennie W. Doane
... neither is it an instance of divine wisdom on which moralists could, if they had only been consulted in time, greatly have improved. It is a thing noble in essence. It is the development of the higher, not the lower, creation. It is the asexual which is the lower, and the sexually differentiated which is the ...
— Sex And Common-Sense • A. Maude Royden
... Pearson (Grammar of Science, p. 373) points out that variation does occur in asexual reproduction. But that sex is at least a powerful stimulus to variation ...
— Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population • George B. Louis Arner


Words linked to "Asexual" :   agamic, asexual reproduction, sexless, gender, fissiparous, sexual, apomictic, vegetal, agamous, sex, neuter, parthenogenetic, nonsexual, vegetative, sexuality, agamogenetic


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