gamo-, gam-, -gamy, -gamous +

Having a sexual character; sexual.

1. Sexual reproduction.
2. Generation by the conjunction of structures from different individuals.

1. In psychiatry, a morbid desire to marry.
2. An urge to make outrageous or extravagant proposals of marriage.

A description of plants with sepals that are joined or partially joined together.

Fertilization by pollen of other flowers of the same plant.

The prevention of self-fertilization in flowers by means of structural obstacles.

Concerning flowers or florets of two sexually different kinds: The heterogamous condition relates to two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, like in the aster.

The heterogamous succession of differently organized generations of animals or plants takes place when sexual generation alternates with parthenogenesis.

1. The marriage between dissimilar people: The heterogamy is the situation of being united as wife and husband who are different from each other, particularly regarding their sociocultural backgrounds.
2. In botany, mediate or indirect fertilization of plants: As opposed to orthogamy. heterogamy is the process of prooagation of plants by a circuitous or roundabout manner.

A sacred marriage: The hierogamy of the couple was not made public until they were marriage 6 years!

A mode of reproduction found in certain protozoa and alg, in which copulation consists in the fusion of whole organisms morphologically similar to the vegetative form.