Autogamy

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:58:39

Au*tog"a*my (?), n. [Auto- + Gr. marriage.] Bot.

Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

 

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