Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Self-fertilization, especially.
- noun Fertilization of a flower by its own pollen.
- noun The union of nuclei within and arising from a single cell, as in certain protozoans and fungi.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, close fertilization, or self-fertilization; the fertilization of a flower by its own pollen. See
allogamy . - noun In biology, the pairing or mating of like with like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
self-fertilization , the fertilizingpollen beingderived from the sameblossom as thepistil acted upon.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun self-fertilization in plants
Etymologies
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Examples
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Studies of compatibility of about 14% of the flora indicate that 85% of these species are self-compatible, but their level of autogamy is low.
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Self-pollenization (autogamy): pollen moves to the female part of the same flower, or to another flower on the same individual plant.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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This is sometimes referred to as self-pollination, but this is not synonymous with autogamy.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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The three basic types of sex are gametogamy, autogamy, and conjugation — all of which are explained on the reproduction strategies page.
Protozoa 2008
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I wish that I had used some such terms as autogamy, xenogamy, etc ...
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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I cannot remember having ever expressed a belief that autogamy, as a general rule, was better than geitonogamy; but the cases recorded by me seem too strong not to make me suspect that there was some unknown advantage in autogamy.
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The terms xenogamy, geitonogamy, and autogamy were first suggested by Kerner in
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I entirely agree with you on the a priori probability of geitonogamy being more advantageous than autogamy; and
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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In xenogamy the pollen comes from another PLANT; in geitonogamy from another FLOWER on the same PLANT; in autogamy from the androecium of the fertilised
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