agamic
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These summer forms are known as the stem mothers or agamic females.
From An Elementary Study of Insects by Leonard Haseman
Common apple aphis showing a winged and wingless agamic summer forms at a and c, one with wing pads formed at b, and a recently born young at d.
From An Elementary Study of Insects by Leonard Haseman
These institutions may perhaps come to be training stations of a new-old type, the agamic or even agenic woman, be she nut, maid—old or young—nun, school-teacher, or bachelor woman.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
Budding: applied to that form of agamic reproduction found in plant lice.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Pseudovary: the organ or mass of germ cells of an agamic insect.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
