What is "asexual"

Usage examples of "asexual".

Although whether these were the result of bisexual, asexual, or some other engendering process, they did not find out.

The Leem were asexual, but two were required to reproduce, each consuming a massive quantity of food and growing to almost one and a half times its normal size, then splitting off that new half, which then joined with a half from the other to produce a whole new being.

After years of being the asexual, forceful Guli Sarahi, it was deeply rewarding to feel like a woman, and to know that she could still attract a man.

I am told, is asexual generation, whereas the word should be confined to sexual generation only.

He also, in an improbable, asexual way, stirred at the thought of the dark young man above, the anguished poet -anguished by everything or nothing.

Over half the admits to psych wards are things like cheerleaders who swallow two bottles of Mydol over a high-school breakup or gray lonely asexual depressing people rendered inconsolable by the death of a pet.

I think of the biomorphs as female, therefore, because asexual animals like greenfly are nearly always basically female in form.

The native beasts (no intelligent lifeforms there) were budders and splitters and completely asexual.

Asexual propagation (cloning) allows the preservation of genotype because only normal cell division (mitosis) occurs during growth and regeneration.

Temples collapsing everywhere, like spyglasses, he'd send those caryatids--and any naiads and dryads he could scare up--to library school, issue them green visors, dress them in the prim asexual uniforms of the OPAMS, the Olympian Perspective Archive Management Service, put them to work filling out three-by-five cards round the clock.

The effect was restrained and even ascetic, but, I had noticed as we sat down, she had neatly balanced her prevailingly asexual image with one stunning erotic touch: her skirt was entirely open from hip to hem for a span of perhaps twenty centimetres down the left side, exposing as she moved a sleek muscular leg, a smooth tawny thigh, a glimpse of buttock.

It is near-blind, possesses sevenfold radial symmetry, is asexual, herbivorous, and lacks measurable intelligence.

The Gtetans, as you may have heard, reproduce by simple asexual fission, but only in the presence of saline solution—.

I may not be male, vegetative propagation is asexual, but by Zots I like this macho talk.