Words ending with gamy

Allogamy means: Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

Apogamy means: The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore.

Autogamy means: Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

Bigamy means: The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another.

Cenogamy means: The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.

Coenogamy means: The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies.

Deuterogamy means: A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy.

Dichogamy means: The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.

Digamy means: Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy.

Endogamy means: Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.