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self-reproducing
self-reproducing adj. 
/ˌsɛlfriːprəˈdʒuːsɪŋ/,
Brit. /ˌsɛlfriːprəˈdjuːsɪŋ/
, /ˌsɛlfriːprəˈdjuːsɪŋ//ˌsɛlfriːprəˈdʒuːsɪŋ/U.S. /ˌsɛlfˌriprəˈd(j)usɪŋ/
that engages in self-reproduction./ˌsɛlfˌriprəˈd(j)usɪŋ/ΚΠ
1833 Age 21 July 229/3 This precious squad [sc. the New Police] wish, we presume, to be called ‘self-reproducing’—to use the expressive phrase of Powlett Thomson.
1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 230 The chromosomes are self-reproducing.
1964 Sci. Amer. Sept. 149 (caption) The little red and blue ‘creatures’ in the photograph..are the two kinds of part of an elementary self-reproducing machine designed by..L. S. Penrose.
1990 G. Arrighi in W. G. Martin Semiperipheral States in World-economy ii. 14 Some fundamental and self-reproducing inequality in the distribution of wealth among the states and peoples of the capitalist world-economy.
2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Apr. There's just females. There's no such thing as a male [mourning gecko]. They are self-reproducing and self-cloning.
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