Word Meanings - AUTOGAMOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.

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• FERTILIZATION
  The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization
• FERTILIZE
  1. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. Byron. 2. To fecundate; as, to fertilize
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• FERTILIZER
  1. One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid. A. R. Wallace. 2. That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.
• AUTOGAMY
  Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.
• SELF-FERTILIZED
  Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• SELF-FERTILIZATION
  The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy.
• WIND-FERTILIZED
  Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
• CROSS-FERTILIZE
  To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.