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The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced; specifically (Biol.),

Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.

Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.

The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed. New Am. Cyc.

Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.

That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.

A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief. Cliché casting, a mode of obtaining an impression from a die or woodcut, or the like, by striking it suddenly upon metal which has been fused and is just becoming solid; also, the casting so obtained.

An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue. I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original. Denham.

Sexually reproductive. Digenous reproduction. (Biol.) Same as Digenesis.

A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.

Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.

A process of reproduction intermediate between fission and gemmation.

A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous…

Reproduction by spontaneous fission.

Reproduction by fission; fissiparism.

ence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a…

The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.

A bud spore; one of the small spores or buds in the reproduction of certain Protozoa, which separate one at a time from the parent cell.