deuterogamyn.
/djuːtəˈrɒɡəmi/ 1. Marriage a second time; marriage after the death of a first husband or wife.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [noun]
bigamya1450
remarriage1620
superinduction?c1622
digamy1635
deuterogamy1656
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Deuterogamy, second marriage, or a repetition of it.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xiv. 136 That unfortunate Divine, who has so long..fought against the deuterogamy of the age.
1869 Echo 7 Sept. 6/1 We do not allow deuterogamy until the primal spouse is disposed of by death or divorce.
2. Botany. The condition in which fertilization by the fusion of gametes is replaced by other processes, as in some fungi, the higher algæ, and flowering plants.
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1898 P. Groom in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 8 Dec. 140 Bearing in mind the analogy to the sexual act, we may describe these nuclear unions as being cases of deuterogamy.
1928 C. W. Dodge tr. E. A. Gäumann Compar. Morphol. Fungi iv. 12 Copulation of the gametes is suppressed and replaced by many secondary processes... All these secondary processes are called deuterogamy (secondary pairing).
1952 F. L. Wynd tr. E. A. Gäumann Fungi 60 Copulation therefore does not occur between true sexual cells, but between the gametangia. This secondary type of sexuality is called deuterogamy.
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