Title of nobility, applied by the Turks to military commanders and, in general, to men of high station in some Muslim countries.agha (Turkish) religious leader in Muslim community; Turkish chief.

Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey)

ETYM Greek agalaktia; a priv. + gala, galaktos, milk.
Failure or inability to produce milk.
/> Medicine, absence or lack of milk secretion.
A condition in which milk is not secreted in the mother's breasts after her child has been delivered; SYN. agalactosis.

(Classical mythology) The king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War.
In Greek mythology, a Greek hero of the Trojan wars, son of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and brother of Menelaus. He sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia in order to secure favorable winds for the Greek expedition against Troy and after a ten years' siege sacked the city, receiving Priam's daughter Cassandra as a prize. On his return home, he and Cassandra were murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His children Orestes and Electra later killed the guilty couple.

Cranelike bird of S America: “the trumpeter”..

ETYM Agamous.
Agamous; non-sexual.
(Of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes ; SYN. agamous, agamogenetic, parthenogenetic.

Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction. (of reproduction)

Lack of marriage or sexual reproduction.

One who opposes marriage.

ETYM Greek for unmarried: a priv. + gamos marriage + genesis reproduction.
(Irregular plural: agamogeneses).
Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.
Non-sexual reproduction.

ETYM Latin Agave, prop. name, from Greek Agaue illustrious, noble.
Several tropical American fiber-yielding plants; American aloe.
Any of several related plants with stiff sword-shaped spiny leaves arranged in a rosette. All species of the genus Agave come from the warmer parts of the New World. They include A. sisalina, whose fibers are used for rope making, and the Mexican century plant A. americana. Alcoholic drinks such as tequila and pulque are made from the sap of agave plants.
Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber; SYN. century plant, American aloe.