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ALLOGAMY

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

• ALLOGAMY (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

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