AUTOGAMY


Meaning of AUTOGAMY in English

— autogamous, autogamic /aw'toh gam"ik/ , adj.

/aw tog"euh mee/ , n.

1. Bot. pollination of the ovules of a flower by its own pollen; self-fertilization (opposed to allogamy ).

2. Biol. conjugation in an individual organism by division of its nucleus into two parts that in turn reunite to form a zygote.

[ 1875-80; AUTO- 1 + -GAMY ]

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