asexualist

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noun

One who believed in asexual reproduction, e.g. in plants.

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Meanings

nounasexualist (plural asexualists)

plural asexualists

  1. historicalOne who believed in asexual reproduction, e.g. in plants.

    The “asexualists" were often like animal preformationists in that they believed seeds did not need pollen fertilization to develop.

    1980, The Eighteenth Century, volume 6, page 182
  2. One who is asexual on principle.

Origin

From asexual + -ist.

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APA

asexualist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/asexualist

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Chicago

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