Definitions For Heterogamous

Adjective

(botany) in which the stamens and pistils are not present in every flower; i.e. there are male and female flowers in the daisy family Asteraceae, having two types of flowers in a flower head (such as some sterile, some hermaphrodite, or some female, some hermaphrodite) (biology) characterized by alternating generations of a parthenogenetic and sexual nature (biology) involving heterogametes in the reproductive process

Synonyms

heterogene

Related terms

heterogamy

Etymology

From {{af, en, hetero-, -gamous}}.

Is Heterogamous a Scrabble Word?

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18
Words with Friends
20

The word Heterogamous is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends

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