asexual
suomi-englanti sanakirjaasexual englannista suomeksi
sukupuoleton, suvuton, epäseksuaalinen
Substantiivi
asexual englanniksi
Nonsexual in nature, unmarked by sexual activity.
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{{quote-text|en|year=2004|author=Martha Vicinus|title=Intimate Friends: women who loved women, 1778-1928|page=150
Not experiencing sexual attraction; lacking interest in or desire for sex.
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{{quote-text|en|year=2010|author=Jerrold S. Greenberg; Clint E. Bruess; Sarah C. Conklin|title=Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality|section=fourth edition, pages 357-358
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Without sexual action; reproducing by some other method than sex.
asexual reproduction|''asexual reproduction''
A species which reproduces by asexual rather than sexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
2009, Isa Schön, Giampaolo Rossetti, Koen Martens, ''Darwinulid Ostracods: Ancient Asexual Scandals or Scandalous Gossip?'', published as Chapter 11 of ''Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis'', Isa Schön, Koen Martens, Peter van Dijk (editors), page 221:
- 11.2 Demonstrating the Status of Long-Lived Asexuals
- ... Indeed, if sex has so many advantages, then which special adaptations - if any - allow long-term survival without it? However, the main task of the research teams dealing with such putative ancient asexuals has thus far been to demonstrate that their respective groups (mainly bdelloids, darwinulids and certain lineages within orbatid mites) indeed merit the status.
A person who does not experience sexual attraction; a person who lacks interest in or desire for sex.
Something which does not have a sex, or a word which refers to such a thing.
{{quote-text|en|year=1936|title=The Journal of English and Germanic Philology|volume=35|page=323
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