- (n.) The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
- (n.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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