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heterogamy - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'heterogamy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Heterogamy [ n.]
- The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
- 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.