asexual
pronunciation
How to pronounce asexual in British English:
UK [ˌeɪˈsekʃuəl]
How to pronounce asexual in American English:
US [eˈsɛkʃuəl]
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- Adjective:
- not havning or involving sex
Word Origin
- asexual (adj.)
- 1830, as a term in biology, a hybrid from a- (2) "not" + sexual. In general contexts, attested from 1896.
Example
- 1. A lot of asexual people do want relationships and children .
- 2. In the mixed environment , asexual females were more likely to produce sexually reproducing female offspring .
- 3. Scientists are not sure , since asexual reproduction is a better evolutionary strategy in some important ways .
- 4. Professor bogaert said society can place expectations on both sexual and asexual people .
- 5. In the two homogenous regions , females tended to produce asexual females - carbon copies of themselves .