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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, direct or immediate fertilization, without the intervention of any mediate agency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Direct fertilization in plants, as when the pollen fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; -- opposed to
heterogamy .
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- noun botany
fertilization of theovules of aplant bypollen from the same plant
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