asexually

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asexual +‎ -ly

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asexually (comparative more asexually, superlative most asexually)

  1. In an asexual manner; without having sex.
    Amoebas reproduce asexually.
    • 2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post[1]:
      One of the pioneers was a French plant scientist named Georges Morel who figured out how to produce asexually thousands of identical orchids from one plant through cloning instead of breeding from seed.

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