autogamy

autogamy

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ -gamy

Noun

autogamy (uncountable)

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

Translations

self-fertilization

Bulgarian: самоопрашване (bg) (samooprašvane) Catalan: autogàmia f French: autogamie (fr) f Italian: autogamia (it) f

Russian: автога́мия (ru) f (avtogámija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: самоопло̀дња f Roman: samooplòdnja (sh) f

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for autogamy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)