Heterogamy

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Heterogamy \Het`er*og"a*my\, n. [See {Heterogamous}.]
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     1. (Bot.) The process of fertilization in plants by an
        indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
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     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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