HETEROGAMY

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.

2.
n.

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.