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

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  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.
  3. 1. (Bot.) The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy. 2. (Biol.) 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.
  4. The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect orcircuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
  5. n. The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy. 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.