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asexual, a. Biol.|əˈsɛksjuːəl|
[f. a- prefix 14 + sexual.]
a. Not sexual, without sex. In Bot. formerly applied to cryptogams; cf. agamic.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. Introd. 19 Asexual plants are flowerless. 1858Lewes Sea-side Stud. 289 Reproducing themselves by sexual and asexual methods.
b. In general contexts: without sexuality.
1896L. Eckenstein Woman under Monasticism ix. 307 The high estimation of virgin purity..was advocated by the leaders of thought..and..the asexual existence..was extolled as virtue in itself. 1903Daily Mail 10 Sept. 2/7 All doctors will tell you that, athletic or not, women are more asexual than men. 1928D. H. Lawrence Let. ? 17 Aug. (1962) 1077, I feel I've shot it [sc. the book] like a bomb against all their false sex and hypocrisy—as my Florentine doctor said, against all their asexual sexuality. |