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(), 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. スポンサード リンク
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