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asexual
adjective as in (Biology) independent of sexual processes
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The ambiance is almost asexual as rockabilly and Motown play in the background.
But whether good or bad, all are light as a soufflé, radiating asexual whiteness in every note.
New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz described it as “fabulously complex, sexual, asexual, mysterious, powerful, impish.”
His encounter with a female Israeli soldier who seems at first rife for a sexual experience, ultimately proves an asexual one.
So when aging, largely asexual cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester announced her pregnancy, Gleeks barely blinked an eye.
Here they enter red corpuscles as young malarial parasites, and the majority pass through the asexual cycle just described.
Still other plants, mosses and ferns, give rise to two kinds of spores, sexual and asexual.
All of the above means of propagation are asexual and are of importance in our problem of plant breeding.
Asexual, a-seks′ū-al, adj. without sex, once applied to cryptogams—agamic.
Thus I have endeavored to sum up the processes of asexual and of sexual reproduction.
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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to asexual, such as: abiogenetic, agamic, agamogenetic, agamous, and parthenogenetic.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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