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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Exhibiting heterogamy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, bearing two kinds of flowers which differ sexually, as in most Compositæ and many Cyperaceæ.
  • Illustrative of or characterized by heterogenesis, or alternation of generations.
  • Of or pertaining to heterogamy, or the marriage or pairing of unlike individuals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.
  • adjective Characterized by heterogamy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany in which the stamens and pistils are not present in every flower; i.e. there are male and female flowers
  • adjective biology characterized by alternating generations of a parthenogenetic and sexual nature
  • adjective biology involving heterogametes in the reproductive process

Etymologies

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hetero- + -gamous

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