| NOUN | process | apogamy | (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization |
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| Meaning | (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization. | |
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| Category | botany, phytology | The branch of biology that studies plants |
| Broader | apomixis | Any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization |
| Spanish | apogamia, apogamy | |
| Catalan | apogamy | |
| Adjectives | apogamic, apogametic, apogamous | of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization |
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