Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cross-fertilization in plants; fecundation of the ovules of one flower by pollen from another of the same species.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.
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- noun biology The
fertilization of anovum from one individual with thespermatozoa of another;cross-fertilization
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- noun cross-fertilization in plants
Etymologies
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allo- + -gamy
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jmjarmstrong commented on the word allogamy
JM is a fan of allogamy but only of the conceptual kind.
August 30, 2010