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Covered with foam; frothy; spumy. Behold how high the foamy billows ride! Dryden.

Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.

Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.

ms of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating. In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. Pope.

Same as Gourami.

See Jumping hare, under Hare.

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

The homology of metameres. See Metamere. Gegenbaur.

The condition of being homogamous.

nity. The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy. Bp. Burnet.

Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam. Bacon.

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Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.

iage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy.

An alloy imitating gold or silver. [Written also ochimy, ochymy, etc.]

A marrying eight times. [R.] Chaucer.

n fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; -- opposed to heterogamy.

A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.

one woman, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry.

Having a seam; containing seams, or showing them. "Many a seamy scar." Burns. Everything has its fair, as well as its seamy, side. Sir W. Scott.