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Definition of Autogamic
1. Adjective. Characterized by or fit for autogamy.
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Similar to: Self-fertilised, Self-fertilized, Self-pollinated
Derivative terms: Autogamy, Autogamy
Antonyms: Endogamous, Exogamous
Definition of Autogamic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Autogamic
Literary usage of Autogamic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Evolution, racial and habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"... autogamic, and Agamic Evolution. A complete classification of the factors of
organic evolution must include the principles producing differentiation of ..."
2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"... but came to the conclusion that no autogamic process of fertilization within
the cyst had been observed. We concur in this view of Hartmann. ..."
3. Evolution and Adaptation by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1908)
"Pearson adds, " Variations do not occur accidentally, or in isolated instances ;
autogamic and assertive mating are realities, and the problem of the near ..."
4. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"... or autogamic. 5. Protozoa are aquatic, a few living in moist earth; they can
only exist in dry air, surrounded by a capsule (encysted) which prevents ..."
5. A Textbook of General Embryology by William Erskine Kellicott (1913)
"... fertilizing nucleus (see Chapter IV), so that a sort of autogamic process
occurs, recalling that of some of the Protozoa and perhaps analogous with it. ..."
6. The Grammar of Science by Karl Pearson (1900)
"We may, therefore, classify the forms of selective mating in the following
manner :— (a) autogamic mating,1 or self-fertilisation. ..."
7. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin (1888)
"The second form is weakly protogynous and autogamic. This form has no nectar-guides,
and the petals are usually shed during the day on which the flowers ..."
8. The Evolution of Sex by Patrick Geddes, John Arthur Thomson (1908)
"Various forms of the latter may be distinguished (following Pearson's classification
and terminology)— (a) autogamic, or self-fertilisation. ..."
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