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Heterogamy   Listen
noun
Heterogamy  n.  
1.
(Bot.) The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; opposed to orthogamy.
2.
(Biol.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate.






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"Heterogamy" Quotes from Famous Books



... blood, and fifty outside that district, his sympathies would more frequently be evoked by the members of the first group than the second, however indistinguishably they were mingled. That harmonises with the fact that homogamy, as it is called, predominates over heterogamy, that like is attractive to like. Therefore, after all, the feeling I have acquired concerning this part of Suffolk may be in ...
— Impressions And Comments • Havelock Ellis



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