heterogamy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: het=er=og=a=my

CIDE DICTIONARY

heterogamy, n. [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

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