What is the meaning of ASEXUAL. Phrases containing ASEXUAL
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Absence of sexual feeling, without sexual desire or preference.
The emotional attachments of adolescents, in closed institutions such as monasteries, convents, boarding schools. the term is sometimes extended to the affectionate pairings of adults. This adolescent love affair can be homosexual or asexual.
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An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia.
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An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.
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A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
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An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
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A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.
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One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore.
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That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction.
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A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division.
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Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
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The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.
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A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Sexless; asexual.
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An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding.
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One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.
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That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate.
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Alternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; -- in distinction from heterogamy.
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The formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. See Budding.
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A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.
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Of or pertaining to monogenesis; as, monogenous, or asexual, reproduction.
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In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
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