Usually means: Reproduction through fusion of gametes.
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  2. allogamy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  8. allogamy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. allogamy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  14. allogamy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. allogamy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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▸ noun:  (biology) The fertilization of an ovum from one individual with the spermatozoa of another; cross-fertilization

Similar:
endogamy, exogamy, allogeneity, allosyndesis, xenogamy, somatogamy, merogamy, external fertilization, anisogamy, oogamy, more...

Opposite:
autogamy, self-fertilization, self-pollination

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Similar:
endogamy, exogamy, allogeneity, allosyndesis, xenogamy, somatogamy, merogamy, external fertilization, anisogamy, oogamy, more...

Opposite:
autogamy, self-fertilization, self-pollination



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