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heterodyne | heterodyne oscillator | heterodyne receiver | heteroecious | heterogamous | heterogamy | heterogangliate | heterogene | heterogeneal | heterogeneity | heterogeneous

heterogamy

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CIDE DICTIONARY

heterogamyn. [See Heterogamous.].
  •  The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

heterogamy, n.
1 the alternation of generations, esp. of a sexual and parthenogenic generation.
2 sexual reproduction by fusion of unlike gametes.
3 Bot. a state in which the flowers of a plant are of two types.

ROGET THESAURUS

heterogamy

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.


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