agamicadj.
/eɪˈɡamɪk/, /əˈɡamɪk/, U.S. /eɪˈɡæmɪk/, /əˈɡæmɪk/ Biology. Now chiefly Botany.
Lacking sexual organs; produced or carried out asexually; = agamous adj. Formerly also: †(of a plant) belonging to the former taxonomic division Cryptogamia, comprising plants believed to lack sexual organs (obsolete); cf. agamae n.
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gemmiparous1793
gemmiferous1804
agamic1816
zoogenic1842
agamogenetic1858
autogenetic1859
parthenogenetic1860
parthenogenous1869
unsexual1873
monogenous1874
monogonic1876
monogonous1876
arrenotokous1877
gemmative1877
thelytokous1877
parthenogenic1878
heteroblastic1888
blastogenic1889
isogamous1889
paedogenetic1889
monogenic1890
anisogamous1891
monogenetic1900
paedogamous1912
apomictic1913
cytogamous1918
ectogenetic1923
pseudogamous1932
agamospermous1933
impaternate1934
subsexual1937
mictic1950
somatogamous1950
zygogenetic1950
1816 London Med. Repository 6 315 The ninth section of this division is a distinct treatise on cryptogamic and agamic plants.
1850 E. C. Otté & H. G. Bohn tr. A. von Humboldt Views of Nature 291 Large classes of insects..subsist on agamic plants.
1859 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. (rev. ed.) xv. 573 Drones are always developed from agamic or unfertilized eggs.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals ii. 96 These present various modes of agamic multiplication by fission.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xii. 248 These wingless root-infesting agamic females deposit their eggs on the roots and five or more generations may occur in a season.
2006 P. Sell & G. Murrell Flora Great Brit. & Ireland IV. 510/2 Regular pseudobisexual agamic flowers..are only rarely absent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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