Ăg'a-mous, a.

a. [Lat. agamus, Gr. ἄγαμος, unmarried, from ἀ priv. and γάμος, marriage.] (Bot.) Having no visible organs of fructification;—a term applied to cryptogamic plants, because they have no distinct sexual organs, especially to the inferior groups of the funguses, lichens, and sea-weeds.

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