Definition of "agamogenesis" [ag•a•mo•gen•e•sis]

• Asexual reproduction, as by budding, cell division, or parthenogenesis. (noun)

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• "This certainly has the potential of speeding up the evolutionary process. ” “You mean they use a method other than agamogenesis? ” They both shuddered. “Tell Us, ” Uith†™ eems, “can this perversion be exploited somehow to strengthen the Empire? ” “Perhaps."
• "Gamogenesis: reproduction through fertilization: see agamogenesis."
• "Mrs. Johnson was surely cured of the rheumatism all right, but that does not prove that Mrs. Eddy is correct in her claim that Eve was made from Adam's rib; that agamogenesis is a fact in"