heterogamy

Het`er*og"a*my, n. Etym: [See Heterogamous.] 1. (Bot.) Defn: The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy. 2. (Biol.) Defn: 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. Claus & Sedgwick.

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