Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Alternation of sexual and parthenogenic generations, as in some aphids.
- noun The state of having different types of flowers on the same plant, as both pistillate ray florets and staminate disk florets in a flower head.
- noun Marriage between people who are different from each other, especially in their sociocultural backgrounds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, heterogenesis, or alternation of generations, considered as an alternation between sexual and asexual reproduction or between parthenogenesis and bisexual reproduction.
- noun Marriage or mating or pairing between unlike individuals, as contrasted with homogamy, or the mating of like with like.
- noun The state or quality of being heterogamous; mediate or indirect fertilization of plants. See extract under Chermes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to
orthogamy . - noun (Biol.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from
metagenesis , where sexual and asexual generations alternate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology The state of conjugating
gametes that aredifferent in size, structure and function - noun sociology
Marriage or similar union between people of different sexes, orsocial strata , such asraces ,.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And my recent concentration on language regarding union or marriage types (homogamy and heterogamy), on the one hand, and sexual dimorphism/gender on the other, made me sensitive to my first lesson.
Philip N. Cohen: Good Woman Child Language (Talking Characters in Taiwan) Philip N. Cohen 2010
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And my recent concentration on language regarding union or marriage types (homogamy and heterogamy), on the one hand, and sexual dimorphism/gender on the other, made me sensitive to my first lesson.
Philip N. Cohen: Good Woman Child Language (Talking Characters in Taiwan) Philip N. Cohen 2010
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And my recent concentration on language regarding union or marriage types (homogamy and heterogamy), on the one hand, and sexual dimorphism/gender on the other, made me sensitive to my first lesson.
Philip N. Cohen: Good Woman Child Language (Talking Characters in Taiwan) Philip N. Cohen 2010
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I don't think we need to introduce spouses, or label our marriage licenses, with the terms homogamy and heterogamy.
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I recently suggested we call same-sex/gender marriage (or similar unions) homogamy and unions between people of different sex/gender heterogamy.
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(Plus, why "sex" instead of "gender"?) Also, unlike "gay marriage," for example, homogamy and heterogamy don't presume to differentiate people based on their sexual orientation -- which is not a prerequisite for any kind of marriage.
Philip N. Cohen: Take My Words For It: Homogamy and Heterogamy 2010
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I don't think we need to introduce spouses, or label our marriage licenses, with the terms homogamy and heterogamy.
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I recently suggested we call same-sex/gender marriage (or similar unions) homogamy and unions between people of different sex/gender heterogamy.
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Sociologists have done statistical surveys of religious homogamy (marrying somebody of the same religion) and heterogamy (marrying somebody of a different religion).
The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006
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The unusual development of the sexual organs in diclinous flowers has been alluded to under the head of heterogamy, and other cases where the symmetry of the flower is rendered regular, by the development of parts ordinarily suppressed, will be found in the chapters relating to deviations from the usual number of organs.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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