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ALLOGAMY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does allogamy mean?
• ALLOGAMY (noun)
The noun ALLOGAMY has 1 sense:
1. cross-fertilization in plants
Familiarity information: ALLOGAMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cross-fertilization in plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("allogamy" is a kind of...):
cross-fertilisation; cross-fertilization (fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species)
Antonym:
autogamy (self-fertilization in plants)
Derivation:
allogamous (relating to cross-fertilization in plants)
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