agamous

== English == === Etymology === From a- +‎ -gamous. === Adjective === agamous (not comparable) Having no marital partner or pair-bonded mate; being neither monogamous (pair-bonded) nor polygamous. 1998, Mallarapu Muni Krishna Reddy, Population and Society in India: Some Selected Readings Based on Qualitative Studies, Kanishka Publishers Distributors: There is of course no universal pattern: families may be nuclear or extended with agamous, monogamous or polygamous individuals. (biology) Synonym of agamic: asexual (of reproduction: occurring without union of male and female gametes). (biology) Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous. ==== Related terms ==== agamy, see that entry for more === Further reading === “agamous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.