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Webster 1913 Edition
Heterogamy
1.
(Bot.)
The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; – opposed to orthogamy.
2.
(Biol.)
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.
Definition 2024
heterogamy
heterogamy
English
Noun
heterogamy (usually uncountable, plural heterogamies)
- (biology) The state of conjugating gametes that are different in size, structure and function; anisogamy.
- (sociology) Marriage or similar union between people of different sexes, or social strata, such as races,.
Synonyms
- (marriage): See also Wikisaurus:intermarriage
Antonyms
- homogamy
- (marriage): See also Wikisaurus:intermarriage
Translations
anisogamy — see anisogamy