单词 | agamic |
释义 | agamicadj. Biology. Now chiefly Botany. Lacking sexual organs; produced or carried out asexually; = agamous adj. Formerly also: †(of a plant) belonging to the former taxonomic division Cryptogamia, comprising plants believed to lack sexual organs (obsolete); cf. agamae n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [adjective] > others gemmiparous1793 gemmiferous1804 agamic1816 zoogenic1842 agamogenetic1858 autogenetic1859 parthenogenetic1860 parthenogenous1869 unsexual1873 monogenous1874 monogonic1876 monogonous1876 arrenotokous1877 gemmative1877 thelytokous1877 parthenogenic1878 heteroblastic1888 blastogenic1889 isogamous1889 paedogenetic1889 monogenic1890 anisogamous1891 monogenetic1900 paedogamous1912 apomictic1913 cytogamous1918 ectogenetic1923 pseudogamous1932 agamospermous1933 impaternate1934 subsexual1937 mictic1950 somatogamous1950 zygogenetic1950 1816 London Med. Repository 6 315 The ninth section of this division is a distinct treatise on cryptogamic and agamic plants. 1850 E. C. Otté & H. G. Bohn tr. A. von Humboldt Views of Nature 291 Large classes of insects..subsist on agamic plants. 1859 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. (rev. ed.) xv. 573 Drones are always developed from agamic or unfertilized eggs. 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals ii. 96 These present various modes of agamic multiplication by fission. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xii. 248 These wingless root-infesting agamic females deposit their eggs on the roots and five or more generations may occur in a season. 2006 P. Sell & G. Murrell Flora Great Brit. & Ireland IV. 510/2 Regular pseudobisexual agamic flowers..are only rarely absent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1816 |
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