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autogamy Bot.|ɔːˈtɒgəmɪ|
[f. Gr. αὐτο- self + -γαµία marriage; cf. Gr. αὐτόγαµος willingly married. First formed in G. (A. Kerner 1876, Die Schutzmittel der Blüthen).]
1. Self-fertilization. autogamic |ɔːtəʊˈgæmɪk| a., characterized by, or fit for, autogamy.
1877Darwin More Letters (1903) II. 413, I wish that I had used some such terms as autogamy, xenogamy, etc. 1878Ogle tr. Kerner's Flowers 9, I understand by autogamy the fecundation of a flower by the pollen from the andrœcium of the same flower. 1880Gray Bot. Text-bk. vi. §4. 216 Autogamy, the application and action of a flower's pollen upon its own pistil. 1881Moore in Jrnl. Bot. X. 85 Small open [flowers] with a modification of the stigmas rendering them autogamic.
2. Biol. Fusion of sister-cells or of pairs of nuclei within a cell. Hence autoˈgamic a.
1900K. Pearson Gram. Sci. (ed. 2) 437 Is there any form of sexual selection such as autogamy, endogamy, apolegamy, or homogamy, using these terms in their broadest senses? Ibid. 501 Variations do not occur accidentally or in isolated instances; autogamic and assortative mating are realities. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 61/1 Autogamy, the fusion of sister-cells, or of two sister-nuclei. |