Word Meanings - AMPHIGONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sexual propagation.

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• PROPAGATION
  1. The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray.
• SEXUALLY
  In a sexual manner or relation.
• SEXUALITY
  The quality or state of being distinguished by sex. Lindley.
• SEXUALIST
  One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnæus.
• SEXUALIZE
  To attribute sex to.
• SEXUAL
  Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual
• ASEXUALIZATION
  The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.
• ASEXUALLY
  In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
• ASEXUAL
  Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
• NONSEXUAL
  Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
• UNSEXUAL
  Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes. De Quincey.
• ESEXUAL
  Sexless; asexual.
• UNISEXUAL
  Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; dioecious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Dioecious.
• BISEXUAL
  Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.