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
Mathematics should be taught only in its rudiments, and those with special talents or tastes for it should go to agamic schools.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
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
Pseudovary: the organ or mass of germ cells of an agamic insect.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Stem-mother: in plant lice; that form hatching from the winter egg, which starts a series of agamic summer generations.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
