ALLOGAMY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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