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asexuality 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. having no evident sex or sex organs
  2. (asexually) in an asexual manner; "plants that reproduce asexually"
  3. Asexuality (also known as nonsexuality), in its broadest sense, is the lack of sexual attractionBogaert, Anthony F. (2006). . Review of General Psychology 10 (3): 241–250. Retrieved on 31 August 2007. or the lack of interest in and desire for sex. ...
  4. (Asexual (fungus)) The terms teleomorph, anamorph, and holomorph apply to portions of the life cycles of fungi in the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota.
  5. The state or quality of being asexual, that is: The state of not experiencing sexual attraction. Compare heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality. The state of not having a sex or sexual organs. The quality (of a species or organism) of reproducing asexually
  6. (asexual) A species which reproduces by asexual rather than sexual reproduction, or a member of such a species; A person who does not experience sexual attraction; a person who lacks interest in or desire for sex; Having no distinct sex, having no sexual organs; Without sexual action; ...
  7. (Asexual) Vegetative reproductions - e.r. cuttings and division.
  8. (asexual) vegetative; without sex organs, sex cells, or sexual spores, as the anamorph of a fungus.
  9. (Asexual) Reproduction not involving meiosis.
  10. (Asexual) A propagation technique where plants are reproduced without the use of seeds. A method of using cuttings or division to create new plants.
  11. (Asexual) Reproduction without cell division.
  12. (Asexual) Lacking sexual characteristics as in a sterile ray floret, when referring to reproduction, occurring without the fusion of egg and sperm.
  13. (Asexual) Non-sexual; propagation either vegetatively or through division of a plant cell.
  14. (Asexual) Not involving the combining of genetic information from two different individuals.  Asexual reproduction results in many individuals who are genetically identical to the parent.  In plants this may be referred to as vegetative propagation (i.e. by cuttings or sprouts)
  15. (Asexual) without sex charicteristics, sexless
  16. (asexual) Flowers that lack pistils, ovuals, pollen or stamens thus don't produce fruit.
  17. (asexual) not forming part of a cycle which involves fertilisation and meiosis.
  18. (Asexually) ability to reproduce without the aid of a partner.
  19. (Asexually) having no sex or sexual organs; not involving the union of male and female germ cells.
  20. (asexually) Reproducing without sex, by fissioning or budding as in many single-celled organisms.