agamous adj 1: (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction [syn: {agamic}, {agamous}, {agamogenetic}, {apomictic}, {parthenogenetic}]
Agamous \Ag"a*mous\, a. [Gr. 'a`gamos unmarried; 'a priv. + ga`mos marriage.] (Biol.) Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In (Bot.), cryptogamous. [1913 Webster]