homogamy
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homogamy (uncountable)
- (botany) fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same plant
- (biology) breeding between similar individuals; inbreeding
- (sociology) marriage or other union between similar people, or people of the same sex
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- endogamy
- homogamous, in botany, having all flowers in a flower head alike
