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APOGAMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("apogamy" is a kind of...):
apomixis (any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Derivation:
apogamic; apogamous (of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization)
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