Asexual [adjective]

Montour said society views blind people as asexual “cherubs” — people who are routinely touched by strangers who want to help them navigate the world when, often, they need no such help.

It’s also worth noting that many asexual folks find representation in Elsa, who just doesn’t seem like she can be bothered with the whole elaborate ritual of dating and marrying and mating.

Here they enter red corpuscles as young malarial parasites, and the majority pass through the asexual cycle just described.

Still other plants, mosses and ferns, give rise to two kinds of spores, sexual and asexual.

All of the above means of propagation are asexual and are of importance in our problem of plant breeding.

Asexual, a-seks′ū-al, adj. without sex, once applied to cryptogams—agamic.

Thus I have endeavored to sum up the processes of asexual and of sexual reproduction.

In a large number of lower animals and plants sexual and asexual generation regularly alternate.

This sort of reproduction, in which a piece of the old parent grows up into the new generation, is called the asexual method.

In the first place, we do not know whether parthenogenesis may not finally settle down into complete asexual reproduction.