asexual reproduction

English

Noun

asexual reproduction (uncountable)

1. (biology) Any form of reproduction that does not involve the fusion of gametes.
   • 2011 July 19, Ella Davies, “Stick insects survive one million years without sex”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.

2. (biology) Any form of reproduction that involves neither meiosis nor fusion of gametes.

Antonyms

• sexual reproduction

Translations

form of reproduction that involves neither meiosis nor fusion of gametes

• Arabic: تَكَاثُر لَاجِنْسِيّ m (takāṯur lājinsiyy)
• Bulgarian: безполово размножаване n (bezpolovo razmnožavane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無性繁殖 / 无性繁殖 (zh), 無性生殖 / 无性生殖 (zh) (wúxìng shēngzhí)

• Esperanto: neseksa reproduktiĝo
• French: multiplication asexuée
• Georgian: უსქესო გამრავლება (uskeso gamravleba)
• German: ungeschlechtliche Fortpflanzung f
• Hungarian: ivartalan szaporodás (hu)
• Icelandic: kynlaus æxlun f
• Japanese: 無性生殖 (ja) (むせいせいしょく, musēsēsyoku)
• Korean: 무성 생식 (museong saengsik)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pirbûna nezayendî, zêdebûna nezayendî

• Maori: whakaputa uri tōtahi
• Polish: rozmnażanie bezpłciowe n
• Romanian: reproducere asexuată (ro) f
• Spanish: reproducción asexual f
• Vietnamese: sinh sản vô tính (vi)