Meaning of HETEROGAMY
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 Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Het`er*og"a*my\, n. [See {Heterogamous}.]
1. (Bot.) The process of fertilization in plants by an
indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
2. (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. --Claus & Sedgwick.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | - The condition in a flowering plant species of having two or more types of flowers -- for example, flowers which have only male parts along with flowers which have only female parts. Heterogamy is the opposite of homogamy.
- The condition in a flowering plant species where both the male and female parts of the flower mature at the same time, so that the individual flower can pollinate itself. (Some species have come up with other obstacles to prevent that possibility, however.)
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