heterogamy

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for heterogamy

heterogamy 🔊

heterogamy : විෂමජන්මාණුකතාව

heterogamy : විෂම යෝගය

heterogamy definition

Noun.

  1. The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
  2. 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.