Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Self-fertilized: applied to flowers which are fertilized by their own pollen, in distinction from
anemophilous and entomophilous flowers, in which one flower is fertilized by pollen from another through the intervention of the wind or of insects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.
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- adjective
Self -fertilizing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by or fit for autogamy
Etymologies
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auto- + -gamous
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Examples
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Most peach varieties are autogamous, but not truly self-pollinated, as it is generally an insect pollinator that moves the pollen from anther to stigma.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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Leersia oryzoides was for a long time thought to produce only cleistogamic and therefore autogamous flowers.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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Wu R, Ma CX, Gallo-Meagher M, Littell RC, Casella G (2002) Statistical methods for dissecting triploid endosperm traits using molecular markers: an autogamous model.
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n. - self-fertilization. autogamic, autogamous, adj.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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