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Adjective: apomictic  ,a-pu'mik-tik
  1. (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
    "The writer has succeeded in raising over twenty of these apomictic frogs";
    - agamic, agamous, agamogenetic, parthenogenetic
     
  2. (botany) of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis
    "Dandelions are apomictic plants that produce seeds without fertilization";
    - apomictical

See also: asexual, nonsexual

Encyclopedia: Apomictic