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  • noun biology The fusion of two cells (but not their nuclei), especially as the first stage of syngamy.

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  • (somatogamy) has taken place and within a few days these united mycelia will have become dikaryotic organisms.

    Quartermasters of Terror Keefe, Patrick Radden 2005

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