Look up: Apogamy


  1. apogamy
    [n] - (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=apogamy

  2. Apogamy
    A·pog'a·my noun [ Prefix apo- + Greek ... marriage.] (Botany) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oöspore. De Bary.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/103

  3. apogamy
    <botany> The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore. ... Origin: Pref. Apo- + Gr. Marriage. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?apogamy

  4. apogamy
    noun (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=apogamy

  5. Apogamy
    • (n.) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/apogamy/

  6. apogamy
    (from the article `fern`) ...and sperm and eggs rapidly, utilizing food in the spores. Many inhabitants of dry rock cliffs, especially in the maidenhair family, Adiantaceae, ... Reproduction in sterile fern hybrids is also accomplished by the process of apogamy, in which spores possessing the same c...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/88

  7. apogamy
    apogamy, apogamic, apogamous, apogamously Absence of sexual reproduction; asexual reproduction, agamogenesis; specifically, in ferns and other cryptogams, production of the perfect plant directly from a bud on the prothallus instead of by the usual sexual process.
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2788/

  8. apogamy
    1) Apomixis 2) Development of an embryo without fertilization
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/apogamy/1

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