HETEROGAMIES

Noun

heterogamies

plural of heterogamy

Source: Wiktionary


HETEROGAMY

Het`er*og"a*my, n. Etym: [See Heterogamous.]

1. (Bot.)

Definition: The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.

2. (Biol.)

Definition: That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate;

– in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate. Claus & Sedgwick.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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