agamous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having no marital partner or pair-bonded mate; being neither monogamous (pair-bonded) nor polygamous.
adj
Synonym of agamic: asexual (of reproduction: occurring without union of male and female gametes).
adj
Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous.
Example Sentences
- "First culture people are strictly monogamous, not agamous or polygamous. Incidentally, it is reasonable to suppose that sex behavior is of much greater importance in the life of the people of advanced culture, owing to the large number of […]"
- "Divandu albimarginatus is a maternal mouthbrooder (latest observations demonstrated larvophilic), that does without pair-bonding (agamous or polygamous). Incubation lasted for approximately fourteen days, […]"
- "There is of course no universal pattern: families may be nuclear or extended with agamous, monogamous or polygamous individuals."
- "Among cichlid species, there are monogamous as well as polygamous breeders. […] Cichlids exhibit monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, and agamy. […] In agamous relationships, there is no bond formed at all. They separate from each other immediately after spawning."
- "It is now a hundred years since the celebrated observations of O. F. Müller on agamous reproduction (gemmiparity) of the Naiades was published, and although there is no reason to question their perfect accuracy on all essential points, […]"
Etymology
From a- + -gamous.
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