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

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oöspore. De Bary.

Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The condition of being homogamous.

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

A marrying eight times. [R.] Chaucer.

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