Heterogamy
Pronunciation : Het`er*og"a*my
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [See Heterogamous.]
Definition : 1. (Bot.)
Defn: The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
2. (Biol.)
Defn: 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. Claus & Sedgwick.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913