Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See cross-fertilization.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Cross-fertilization in plants; fecundation of the ovules of one flower by pollen from another of the same species. Distinguished from
autogamy , or self-fertilization, in which the ovules are fecundated by pollen from the same flower.
Wiktionary
- n. biology The fertilization of an ovum from one individual with the spermatozoa of another; cross-fertilization
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.
WordNet 3.0
- n. cross-fertilization in plants
Etymologies
- allo- + -gamy (Wiktionary)
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