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Heterogamy

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\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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