- 1. n. The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy. Source: opted
- 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. Source: opted
- 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. Source: webster
- 4. The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect orcircuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy. Source: adambom
- 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. Source: ecdict
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