gamo-, gam-, -gamy, -gamous +

1. A form of polyandry in which two or more brothers have or share the same wife, or wives.
2. Possibly, the marriage of a brother and sister to each other.
3. In zoology, mating of brothers and sisters, as with certain kinds of ants.
4. In botany, fertilization between two different individuals derived vegetatively from the same parent plant.

1. A mature reproductive cell that does not fuse with another to form a zygote; a noncopulating germ cell.
2. An asexual reproductive cell that progresses directly into an adult as a spore.

An unmarried person.

A local interbreeding population of predominantly asexually reproducing individuals.

The production of offspring otherwise than by the union of parents of distinct sexes (as by the simple division of a pre-existent living being, or the formation of buds, that become independent living beings); asexual reproduction.

Asexual reproduction by development of a new individual from a single cell, following binary or multiple fission, or budding.

A reference to a plant having female and neuter flowers in the same inflorescence.

Unmarried.

1. Absence or non-recognition of the marriage relation [literally, no marriage].
2. In biology, having no distinguishable sexual organs; asexual.
3. In botany, cryptogamous is used.

1. Cross-fertilization.
2. Fertilization of the ova of one individual by the spermatozoa of another.

Marriage between a young woman and an older man.

1. Marriage between an older woman and a much younger man.
2. A marriage in which there is a considerable age difference between partners, a woman being the older partner.
3. Etymology: From Latin anilis, "an old woman" plus juvenis, "a youth" or "young man" plus Greek -gamy "marriage".

1. Marriage between persons of unequal age, especially when there is a considerable age difference.
2. In botany, the union of two unequal gametes in reproduction.
3. Fusion of two gametes unequal in size or form; fertilization as distinguished from isogamy or conjugation.

Absence of sexual reproduction; asexual reproduction, agamogenesis; specifically, in ferns and other cryptogams, production of the perfect plant directly from a bud on the prothallus instead of by the usual sexual process.

1. Self-fertilization.
2. In biology, fusion of sister-cells or of pairs of nuclei within a cell.