-gamy

a combining form with the meanings “marriage,” “union,” “fertilization, pollination,” of the kind specified by the initial element: exogamy; plastogamy; allogamy; also forming nouns corresponding to adjectives ending in -gamous: heterogamy.

Origin of -gamy

combining form representing Greek -gamía act of marrying

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British Dictionary definitions for -gamy

-gamy

n combining form

denoting marriage or sexual unionbigamy

Word Origin for -gamy

from Greek -gamia, from gamos marriage

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Word Origin and History for -gamy

word-forming element meaning "marriage; fertilization," from Greek -gamia, from gamos "marriage" (see gamete).

-gamy in Medicine

-gamy

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Marriage; mate:monogamy.

Procreative or propagative union:heterogamy.