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Look up: endogamy

  1. Endogamy
    The forbidding of marriage or sexual relations outside one`s social group.
    Found on http://www.polity.co.uk/giddens5/student

  2. endogamy
    [n] - marriage within one`s own tribe or group as required by custom or law
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Endogamy
    marriage between people of the same social category
    Found on http://wps.pearsoned.co.uk/wps/media/obj

  4. endogamy
    The custom of marrying within one's own group - tribe, caste, or clan. The opposite is exogamy. ...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  5. Endogamy
    En·dog'a·my noun Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/38

  6. endogamy
    Sexual reproduction between organisms which are closely related to each other. ... Production of a zygote (an egg that has been fertilized by a sperm) by a simultaneous hermaphrodite (an organism which produces both sperm and eggs) using only its own gametes (eggs and sperm) without gamete contributions from other individuals. ... Marriage between me ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. endogamy
    intermarriage 1 inmarriage noun marriage within one`s own tribe or group as required by custom or law
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Endogamy
    `Endogamy` is the practice of marrying within a social group. Cultures who practice endogamy require marriage between specified social groups, classes, or ethnicities. A Danish endogamist would require marriage only to other Danes. Just about any accepted social grouping may provide a boundary for endogamy. Despite the fact that many people tend to marry members of their own social group, there are some groups that practice endogamy very strictly...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogamy

  9. endogamy
    (en-dog´ә-me) fertilization by union of separate cells having the same genetic ancestry. adj., endog´amous., adj.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  10. Endogamy
    • (n.) Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. endogamy
    (from the article `exogamy and endogamy`) practices controlling the relation of the sexes and the selection of marital partners. Exogamous groups enjoin their members to marry outside the ... ...the Guianas and in the Río Negro region, the individual must find a mate outside his village or even outside his tribe (exogamy). The T...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/29

  12. endogamy
    endogamy, endogamous, endogamic 1. The custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or a tribe. 2. Reproduction by conjugation between sister cells, the descendants of one original cell.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  13. endogamy
    Reproduction by conjugation between sister cells, the descendants of one original cell. [endo- + G. gamos, marriage]
    Found on

  14. endogamy
    endogamy (endog'umē) : see marriage.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0


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