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APOGAMY

Dictionary entry overview: What does apogamy mean?

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

1. (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization

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

Dictionary entry details

• APOGAMY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

apomixis (any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

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