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Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage.

The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another. Wharton.

See Bergamot.

The state of a communty which permits promiseuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.

e been found to occur regularly in the families Betulaceæ and Juglandaceæ. Partial chalazogamy is found in Ulmus, the tube here penetrating the nucleus midway between the chalaza and micropyle. --Chal`a*zo*gam"ic (#), a.

Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin.

ts members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies. [Written also cenogamy.]

A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. Henslow.

The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.

One skilled in cryptogamic botany.

One who marries the second time.

A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

Manifesting dichogamy.

The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.

One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist. Hammond.

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Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek . Andrews.

Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.

Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy. [R.]