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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Marrying, or pertaining to the custom of marrying, within the tribe or group; pertaining to, practising, or characterized by endogamy: opposed to exogamous.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of a marriage Within a social group. The practice of endogamy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Marrying within the same tribe; -- opposed to exogamous.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. characterized by or fit for fertilization by pollen from another flower of the same kind
  2. adj. pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe

Etymologies

  1. endo- + -gamous (Wiktionary)

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