Usually means: Mating between socially equal individuals.
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  1. orthogamy: Wordnik
  2. orthogamy: Wiktionary
  3. Orthogamy, orthogamy: Dictionary.com
  4. Orthogamy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. orthogamy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Orthogamy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. orthogamy: FreeDictionary.org
  8. orthogamy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (orthogamy)

▸ noun:  (botany) fertilization of the ovules of a plant by pollen from the same plant

Similar:
homogamy, self pollination, geitonogamy, autogamy, porogamy, hydrogamy, herkogamy, polygamy, heterogony, self-fertilization, more...

Opposite:
anisogamy, heterogamy, non-orthogamy

Types:
endogamy, exogamy, more...

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Similar:
homogamy, self pollination, geitonogamy, autogamy, porogamy, hydrogamy, herkogamy, polygamy, heterogony, self-fertilization, more...

Opposite:
anisogamy, heterogamy, non-orthogamy

Types:
endogamy, exogamy, more...



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