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Asexual   /eɪsˈɛksjuəl/   Listen
adjective
Asexual  adj.  
1.
(Biol.) Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
2.
Not involving sexual activity or sexual attraction; as, an asexual friendship.





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"Asexual" Quotes from Famous Books



... are of the most interest to us because the parasites that cause the malarial fevers and various other diseases belong here. These are dependent on two hosts for their existence, the sexual generation usually occuring in an insect or other invertebrate and the asexual generation ...
— Insects and Diseases - A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread - or Cause some of our Common Diseases • Rennie W. Doane
... neither is it an instance of divine wisdom on which moralists could, if they had only been consulted in time, greatly have improved. It is a thing noble in essence. It is the development of the higher, not the lower, creation. It is the asexual which is the lower, and the sexually differentiated which is the ...
— Sex And Common-Sense • A. Maude Royden
... Pearson (Grammar of Science, p. 373) points out that variation does occur in asexual reproduction. But that sex is at least a powerful stimulus to variation ...
— Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population • George B. Louis Arner
... found in every age, but how many of them shine with the distinctive ray of womanhood? These are so rare that they have a place in the pages of history. The truly emancipated woman—it was Godwin's conviction—is almost always asexual; to him, therefore, utterly repugnant. If, then, he were not content to waste his life in a vain search for the priceless jewel, which is won and worn only by fortune's supreme favourites, he must acquiesce in the imperfect marriage commonly ...
— Born in Exile • George Gissing


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