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Definition of "asexual" []

  • Having no evident sex or sex organs; sexless. (adjective)
  • Relating to, produced by, or involving reproduction that occurs without the union of male and female gametes, as in binary fission or budding. (adjective)
  • Lacking interest in or desire for sex. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "asexual" in a sentence
  • "The changes in asexual reproduction are more likely to be a “single point mutation” and get copied in every successive generation."
  • "The trouble with being asexual is that your genome is passed on as a single, monolithic block, rather than shuffled up as happens during the sexy sex."
  • "This guy is just scared to bang it out. just now, -0 / +0We chose the name asexual because we were trying to choose a "correct" name."