Meanings
nounagamogenesis (uncountable)
- uncountableAsexual reproduction.
He was as touching and as confidential as ever, and I felt we must look like an old couple that by some dazzling agamogenesis had produced this golden-haired offspring.
1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 155
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Origin
- Ancient Greekγάμος“marriage”
- Englishagamogenesis
From a- + Ancient Greek γάμος (gámos, “marriage”) + -genesis.
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