Syngamy

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  • noun. The fusion of two gametes in fertilization.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Natural and fertile interbreeding.
  • noun. The fertilization of the egg considered as a process of cellular or nuclear fusion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The fusion of two gametes to form a zygote.
  • Word Usage
    "A pollinator is the biotic agent (vector) that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization or '' syngamy '' of the female gamete in the ovule of the flower by the male gamete from the pollen grain."
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