Meaning

3 senses
  1. (not comparable)Having no marital partner or pair-bonded mate; being neither monogamous (pair-bonded) nor polygamous.

  2. (not comparable)Synonym of agamic: asexual (of reproduction: occurring without union of male and female gametes).

    (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction

  3. (not comparable)Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous.

Origin

From a- + -gamous.

From a- + -gamous.

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Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedagamy

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
agamous — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto