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agamous

agamous adjective: having no marital partner or pair-bonded mate; being neither monogamous (pair-bonded) nor polygamous.

Adjective

agamous (not comparable)

  1. Having no marital partner or pair-bonded mate; being neither monogamous (pair-bonded) nor polygamous.
    • First culture people are strictly monogamous, not agamous or polygamous. Incidentally, it is reasonable to suppose that sex behavior is of much greater importance in the life of the people of advanced culture, owing to the large number of […]1935, Edward Lee Thorndike, Adult Interests
    • Divandu albimarginatus is a maternal mouthbrooder (latest observations demonstrated larvophilic), that does without pair-bonding (agamous or polygamous). Incubation lasted for approximately fourteen days, […]2004, Anton Lamboj, The Cichlid Fishes of Western Africa
  2. Synonym of agamic: asexual (of reproduction: occurring without union of male and female gametes).
    • It is now a hundred years since the celebrated observations of O. F. Müller on agamous reproduction (gemmiparity) of the Naiades was published, and although there is no reason to question their perfect accuracy on all essential points, […]1872, The American Naturalist: A Bi-monthly Journal Devoted to the Advancement and Correlation of the Biological Sciences, page 507
    Synonyms:
    agamic
  3. Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous.

agamous meaning in Tamil

agamous in Tamil

பாலுறுப்பற்ற, பால்காட்டும் உறுப்பில்லாத, கண்ணுக்குப்புலப்படும் பூக்கள் இல்லாத

Examples of agamous in a sentence

  • There is of course no universal pattern: families may be nuclear or extended with agamous, monogamous or polygamous individuals.1998, Mallarapu Muni Krishna Reddy, Population and Society in India: Some Selected Readings Based on Qualitative Studies, Kanishka...
  • Among cichlid species, there are monogamous as well as polygamous breeders. […] Cichlids exhibit monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, and agamy. […] In agamous relationships, there is no bond formed at all.2012, David Oconner, Cichlid Fish: The Fascinationg World of Cichlid Care, David Oc, →ISBN, page 28:

Synonyms of agamous

Origin of agamous

From a- + -gamous.

Questions about agamous

What does agamous mean?
Agamous means having no marital partner or pair-bonded mate; being neither monogamous (pair-bonded) nor polygamous.
What is agamous in Tamil?
Agamous in Tamil is பாலுறுப்பற்ற, பால்காட்டும் உறுப்பில்லாத, கண்ணுக்குப்புலப்படும் பூக்கள் இல்லாத. See Agamous meaning in Tamil.
How do you use agamous in a sentence?
There is of course no universal pattern: families may be nuclear or extended with agamous, monogamous or polygamous individuals.
What part of speech is agamous?
Agamous is an adjective.

Words near agamous in the dictionary

  1. agamospermous
  2. agamosperms
  3. agamospermy
  4. agamospore
  5. agamospores
  6. agamous
  7. AGAMP
  8. agamy
  9. Agan
  10. Agana
  11. aganacteses

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