[ad_1] adjective
- Biology.
- free from sexual desires or sexuality: an asexual friendship;a woman who identifies as asexual;an asexual hug.
adjective
- having no apparent sex or sex organs
- (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes, as in vegetative reproduction, fission, or budding
1830, as a term in biology, a hybrid from a- (2) “not” + sexual. In general contexts, attested from 1896.
adj.
- Having no evident sex or sex organs; sexless.
- Relating to, produced by, or involving reproduction that occurs without the union of male and female gametes, as in binary fission or budding.
- Lacking interest in or desire for sex.