agamic

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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 Hall, G. Stanley

These summer forms are known as the stem mothers or agamic females.

From An Elementary Study of Insects by Haseman, Leonard

Pseudovary: the organ or mass of germ cells of an agamic insect.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Common apple aphis showing a winged and wingless agamic summer forms at a and c, one with wing pads formed at b, and a recently born young at d.

From An Elementary Study of Insects by Haseman, Leonard

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 Smith, John. B.