autogamy

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ -gamy.

Noun

autogamy (countable and uncountable, plural autogamies)

1. Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.
2. Sologamy, marriage to oneself.

Derived terms

• autogamous
• hydroautogamy

 

Translations

self-fertilization

• Bulgarian: самоопрашване (bg) (samooprašvane)
• Catalan: autogàmia f
• Finnish: autogamia
• French: autogamie (fr) f
• German: Autogamie (de) f, Selbstbefruchtung f
• Greek: αυτογονιμοποίηση (el) f (aftogonimopoíisi)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: autogamia (it) f, autofertilizzazione (it) f
• Polish: autogamia (pl) f, samozapłodnienie n (of animals), samopylność (pl) f (of plants)
• Romanian: autogamie (ro) f
• Russian: автога́мия (ru) f (avtogámija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: самоопло̀дња f

  Roman: samooplòdnja (sh) f

• Tagalog: sarisapunla

References

• “autogamy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.