Word.ws English Dictionary

agamies

agamies is the plural of agamy.

Meaning of agamy

Noun

agamy (countable and uncountable, plural agamies)

  1. Absence or nonrecognition of marriage, or absence of a pair bond.
    • Cichlids exhibit monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, and agamy. […] In agamous relationships, there is no bond formed at all. They separate from each other immediately after spawning.2012, David Oconner, Cichlid Fish: The Fascinationg World of Cichlid Care, David Oc, →ISBN, page 28
  2. Asexual reproduction.

Questions about agamies

What is agamies the plural of?
Agamies is the plural of agamy.

Words near agamies in the dictionary

  1. agamic
  2. agamically
  3. agamid
  4. Agamidis
  5. agamids
  6. agamies
  7. agamis
  8. agamist
  9. agamists
  10. agammaglobulinaemia
  11. agammaglobulinaemias

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: agamies (page history and authors); agamy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “agamies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/agamies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.