Of organisms: Producing new individuals by gemmation.

Producing a gemma or bud; producing offspring by gemmation.

Lacking sexual organs; produced or carried out asexually; = agamous, adj. Formerly also: †(of a plant) belonging to the former taxonomic division C…

Of or relating to zoogeny. Now historical and rare.

Of or relating to asexual reproduction; reproducing asexually.

Of, relating to, or involving autogenesis or self-generation. Cf. autogeny, n. 1.

Biology. Relating to, characterized by, or of the nature of parthenogenesis; resulting from parthenogenesis. Also figurative.

= parthenogenetic, adj. 1.

Biology. Without sexual organs or function; not involving or engaging in sexual reproduction; = asexual, adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

Biology. Of asexual reproduction: vegetative. Obsolete. rare.

Of reproduction in non-sexual organisms or stages: asexual, vegetative. Cf. monogenic, adj.1 3a.

= monogonic, adj.

(See quot. 1877.)

Concerned with the production of offspring by gemmation.

Producing only female offspring, as the parthenogenetic females of some species: opposed to arrenotokous.

= parthenogenetic, adj. 1.

(a) arising from cells of a different kind; opposed to homoblastic; (b) Botany (characterized by) having a marked difference between the immature…

Of or pertaining to blastogenesis; pertaining to origin from, or that originates in, the germ-cell or germ-plasm.

characterized by isogamy.

Relating to or characterized by (parthenogenetic) reproduction occurring in a larval or immature form. Cf. paedogenesis, n. 1.

Biology. Of, relating to, or characterized by vegetative reproduction (cf. monogenesis, n. 2). Cf. monogonic, adj. rare.

characterized by anisogamy n.

Biology. Of reproduction: asexual, vegetative. Obsolete. rare.

Relating to, involving, or of the nature of paedogamy.

Pertaining to or produced by apomixis; reproducing without sexual fusion.

undergoing or produced by cytogamy.

reproducing by or involving pseudogamy.

Characterized by asexual reproduction in which seeds are produced from unfertilized ovules; exhibiting agamospermy.

Produced parthenogenetically by a female without fecundation by a male.

Genetics. Of or relating to any of several forms of apomixis in plants in which the progeny are genetically different from the parent despite the…

Originally: designating females (of various species) that are capable of sexual reproduction (i.e. that are not obligately parthenogenetic). Later…