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Marrying within the same tribe; -- opposed to exogamous.

tricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.

Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to endogenous.

riage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy. Lubbock.

A first game; first plan. [Obs.] Whitlock.

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

The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera.

Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses.

ilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.

Characterized by heterogamy.

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

Having all the flowers alike; -- said of such composite plants as Eupatorium, and the thistels.

The condition of being homogamous.

to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington.

Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.

The phallic symbol under which Siva is principally worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power. Whitworth. E. Arnold.

An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.

A game arranged as a test of superiority; also, one of a series of such games.

An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars.

In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers.