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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[

Hetero-

+ Gr.

γάμοσ

marriage: cf. F.

hétérogame

(Bot. & Biol.)

(a)

The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.

(b)

Characterized by heterogamy.