agamous

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having no marital partner or pair-bonded mate; being neither monogamous (pair-bonded) nor polygamous.

   “First culture people are strictly monogamous, not agamous or polygamous. Incidentally, it is reasonable to suppose that sex behavior is of much greater importance in the life of the people of advanced culture, owing to the large number of […]”

   “Divandu albimarginatus is a maternal mouthbrooder (latest observations demonstrated larvophilic), that does without pair-bonding (agamous or polygamous). Incubation lasted for approximately fourteen days, […]”

   “There is of course no universal pattern: families may be nuclear or extended with agamous, monogamous or polygamous individuals.”

   “Among cichlid species, there are monogamous as well as polygamous breeders. […] Cichlids exhibit monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, and agamy. […] In agamous relationships, there is no bond formed at all. They separate from each other immediately after spawning.”

2. (not-comparable)Synonym of agamic: asexual (of reproduction: occurring without union of male and female gametes).

   “It is now a hundred years since the celebrated observations of O. F. Müller on agamous reproduction (gemmiparity) of the Naiades was published, and although there is no reason to question their perfect accuracy on all essential points, […]”

3. (not-comparable)Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous.