adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
reproduction
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The same pattern of asexual reproduction occurs in water fleas, aphids and even a few lizards.
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We can not, then, say that asexual reproduction is cloning.
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But here is a form of asexual reproduction that does not lead to cloning.
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Moreover, with strictly asexual reproduction , mutations will inevitably accumulate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alpine flowers are often among the most asexual of flowers.
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Breeders of asexual plants must wait for the inventions to accumulate slowly within the same lineage.
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But she was not juxtaposed against an asexual image of respectability.
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Fat women are defined as undesirable, asexual , maternal, sexually desperate, rampant or repressed.
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Reproduction can also be accomplished by asexual subdivision of polyps, each polyp dividing to form two.
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Thus, grass grows asexual runners to propagate locally but commits its sexually produced seeds to the wind to travel farther.