Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Transfer of pollen from an anther of one flower to a stigma of another flower on the same plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the fecundation of a pistil by pollen from another flower of the same plant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Transfer of
pollen grains from theanther of a flower to thestigma of another flower of the same plant.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Nevertheless, selfing mediated via geitonogamy is the most frequent mechanism of pollen transfer.
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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
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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The terms xenogamy, geitonogamy, and autogamy were first suggested by Kerner in
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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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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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.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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Like most flowering plants they outdo birds and bees in reproductive invention, for geitonogamy can occur, in which a flower is pollinated by a neighbor on the same umbel.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2008
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