heterogamy Meaning, Definition & Usage

See Heterogamous.

(Bot.) The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
(Biol.) 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.