agamogenesis Biol.
(ˌægəməʊˈdʒɛnɛsɪs)
[f. Gr. ἄγαµο-ς unmarried + γένεσις generation, birth.]
The production of offspring otherwise than by the union of parents of distinct sexes (as by the simple division of a pre-existent living being, or the formation of buds, which become at length independent living beings); asexual reproduction.
| 1864 H. Spencer Illust. Progr. 370 Species which, multiplying by agamogenesis, can people a whole shore from a single germ. 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. An. Introd. 28 In many of the lower forms of life agamogenesis is the common and predominant mode of reproduction. |