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gamic, a.|ˈgæmɪk|
[ad. Gr. γαµικός, relating to marriage, f. γάµος marriage.]
1. Biol. Having a sexual character; sexual.
1864H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. 229 In each ovarium along with the rudiments of agamic eggs..there usually..exists the rudiment of an ephippial egg; which, from sundry evidences, is inferred to be a sexual or gamic egg. Ibid. 230 Four times..as great as that contained in a gamic brood.
2. Geom. gamic edges, corresponding edges of an autopolar polyhedron. Also as n.
1856Kirkman in Phil. Trans. CXLVII. 184 Two such edges I call a gamic pair, or a pair of gamics, either being the gamic of the other. |
