AUTOGAMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does autogamy mean? 

• AUTOGAMY (noun)
  The noun AUTOGAMY has 1 sense:

1. self-fertilization in plants

  Familiarity information: AUTOGAMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTOGAMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Self-fertilization in plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("autogamy" is a kind of...):

self-fertilisation; self-fertilization (fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from the same individual)

Antonym:

allogamy (cross-fertilization in plants)

Derivation:

autogamic; autogamous (characterized by or fit for autogamy)

 Context examples 

Therefore, mechanisms favoring autogamy should be frequently found in nature, but such frequency has not been found.

(Some plants are capable of ‘rubbing’ themselves for hours in order to achieve self fertilization, University of Granada)

However, some plants have specialized in selfing (also called ‘autogamy’), that is to say, fertilizing themselves without the need of crossing whit another plant, explains Mohamed Abdelaziz Mohamed, professor from the UGR Department of Genetics and main author of this study.

(Some plants are capable of ‘rubbing’ themselves for hours in order to achieve self fertilization, University of Granada)