autogamy

American  

[aw-tog-uh-mee] / ɔˈtɒg ə mi /

noun

1. Botany. pollination of the ovules of a flower by its own pollen; self-fertilization (opposed to allogamy).

2. Biology. conjugation in an individual organism by division of its nucleus into two parts that in turn reunite to form a zygote.

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autogamy British  

/ ˌɔːtəˈɡæmɪk, ɔːˈtɒɡəmɪ /

noun

1. self-fertilization in flowering plants

2. a type of sexual reproduction, occurring in some protozoans, in which the uniting gametes are derived from the same cell

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autogamy Scientific  

/ ô-tŏg′ə-mē /

1. See self-fertilization

2. The union of nuclei within and arising from a single cell, as in certain protozoans and fungi.

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Other Word Forms

• autogamic
  adjective
• autogamous
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of autogamy

First recorded in 1875–80; auto- ¹ + -gamy