Meaning | not having or involving sex. |
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Examples | - "an asexual spore"
- "asexual reproduction"
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Synonym | nonsexual |
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Attribute of | sex, gender, sexuality | The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles |
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Narrower | agamic, agamous, agamogenetic, apomictic, parthenogenetic | (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction |
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fissiparous | Reproducing by fission |
neuter, sexless | Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs |
vegetal, vegetative | (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes |
Opposite | sexual | having or involving sex |
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Spanish | asexuado, asexual |
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Catalan | asexual |
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Nouns | asexuality | having no evident / evident sex or sex organs |
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Adverbs | asexually | in an asexual manner |
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