asexually

English

Etymology

asexual +‎ -ly

Adverb

asexually (comparative more asexually, superlative most asexually)

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:
  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.

Translations

in an asexual manner; without having sex

Finnish: suvuttomasti, epäseksuaalisesti
French: asexuellement (fr)
Galician: asexualmente (gl)
Italian: asessualmente (it)
Polish: aseksualnie, bezpłciowo
Portuguese: assexuadamente, assexualmente
Slovak: asexuálne
Spanish: asexualmente (es)

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