Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
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- reproduction, as budding, fission, or spore formation, not involving the union of gametes.
n.
- Reproduction occurring without the sexual union of male and female gametes.
- See under reproduction.
The kind of reproduction in which it is not necessary to have two parents to produce offspring. The reproduction of single-celled organisms through fission, and the production of spores in some plants and plantlike organisms, are examples of asexual reproduction.