a. Biol. [f. Gr. ἄγαμ-ος unmarried (see AGAMOUS) + -IC.] Characterized by the absence of sexual action; in Bot. obs. for CRYPTOGAMIC.
1850. trans. Humboldt, Views of Nat., 291. Large classes of insects … subsist on agamic plants.
1859. Carpenter, Anim. Physiol., § 747. Drones are always developed from agamic or unfertilized eggs.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., ii. 96. These present various modes of agamic multiplication by fission.
