Usually means: Fusion of two gamete cells.
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  1. syngamy: Merriam-Webster
  2. syngamy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. syngamy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. syngamy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. syngamy: Wordnik
  6. syngamy: Wiktionary
  7. syngamy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. syngamy: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. syngamy: Dictionary.com
  10. Syngamy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. syngamy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. syngamy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. syngamy: Encyclopedia

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  1. syngamy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. syngamy: Medical dictionary

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  1. syngamy: Natural History Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (syngamy)

▸ noun:  The fusion of two gametes to form a zygote.

Similar:
aneugeny, sexual reproduction, agamogenesis, fusion, cross-fertilization, synapsogenesis, parabiosis, synanagrammatism, cytoduction, synthesis, more...

Opposite:
asexuality, apomixis, parthenogenesis, autogamy, agamogenesis

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Similar:
aneugeny, sexual reproduction, agamogenesis, fusion, cross-fertilization, synapsogenesis, parabiosis, synanagrammatism, cytoduction, synthesis, more...

Opposite:
asexuality, apomixis, parthenogenesis, autogamy, agamogenesis



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