homogamy

Meaning of homogamy

noun
  1. marriage between people from similar sociological or educational backgrounds.
  2. inbreeding, especially as a result of isolation.
  3. a state in which the flowers of a plant are all of one type (either hermaphrodite or of the same sex).
  4. the simultaneous ripening of the stamens and pistils of a flower, ensuring self-pollination.

late 19th century: from homo- ‘same’ + Greek gamos ‘marriage’.

Information about homogamy

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of homogamy is: homogamies.
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Hyphenation of homogamy

ho-mogamy

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • homogamy is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with homogamy

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