APOGAMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apogamy mean? 

• APOGAMY (noun)
  The noun APOGAMY has 1 sense:

1. (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization

  Familiarity information: APOGAMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APOGAMY (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)