Word Meanings - AGAMOGENESIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.

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• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• ASEXUALIZATION
  The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.
• ASEXUALLY
  In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• DISTINCTURE
  Distinctness.
• DISTINCTIVENESS
  State of being distinctive.
• DISTINCTIVE
  1. Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft. 2. Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. Sir T. Browne.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• ASEXUAL
  Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• REPRODUCTION
  the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring. Note: There are two distinct methods of reproduction; viz.: asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction . In both cases the new individual is developed from detached portions of
• DISTINCTLY
  1. With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly. 2. With meaning; significantly. Thou dost snore distinctly; There's meaning in thy snores. Shak. Syn. -- Separately;
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• UNIONISM
  1. The sentiment of attachment to a federal union, especially to the federal union of the United States. 2. The principles, or the system, of combination among workmen engaged in the same occupation or trade.
• DISTINCTIVELY
  With distinction; plainly.
• UNIONIST
  1. One who advocates or promotes union; especially a loyal supporter of a federal union, as that of the United States. 2. A member or supporter of a trades union.
• UNION
  A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as
• DISTINCT
  1. Distinguished; having the difference marked; separated by a visible sign; marked out; specified. Wherever thus created -- for no place Is yet distinct by name. Milton. 2. Marked; variegated. The which was dight With divers flowers distinct
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• CONTRADISTINCT
  Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• UNDISTINCTLY
  Indistinctly.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• NONUNIONIST
  One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.
• EXCOMMUNION
  . A shutting out from communion; excommunication. Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton.
• NONUNION
  1. Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union; as, a nonunoin carpenter. 2. Not recognizing or favoring trades unions or trades-unionists; as, a nonunion contractor. --Non*un"ion*ism , n.
• DISUNIONIST
  An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.
• INDISTINCTLY
  In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton.