Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, of the nature of or characterized by apogamy.
- In biology, illustrative of, pertaining to, or due to apogamy, or the substitution of vegetative for sexual reproduction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to apogamy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization
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The last-mentioned case has been regarded as representing an apogamous development of the sporophyte from the gametophyte comparable to the cases of apogamy described in Ferns.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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