Definition of Homogamous

1. a. Having all the flowers alike; -- said of such composite plants as Eupatorium, and the thistels.

Definition of Homogamous

1. Adjective. (botany) Having all the flowers alike. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Homogamous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Homogamous

1. Having flowers of only one kind. Compare: heterogamous. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Homogamous

homofermentation
homofullerene
homofullerenes
homofunctionalized
homogalacturonan
homogalacturonans
homogametic embryo
homogamies
homogamous (current term)
homoganda
homogangliate
homogenate
homogenated
homogenates
homogeneal
homogeneities
homogeneity
homogeneous
homogeneous catalyses
homogeneous catalysis
homogeneous function
homogeneous functions

Literary usage of Homogamous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"E. Heads heterogamous or homogamous. Involucre mostly one or two series of equal ... +- •+- Heads homogamous, discoid, of wholly hermaphrodite and fertile ..."

2. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"... of a deep blue-purple colour, homogamous : corolla tubular- campanulate, 5-cleft; the pappus remarkably developed before the opening of the flowers. ..."

3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Heads homogamous. Scales of the involucre slightly united below. ... Heads homogamous and the flowers all perfect, with corollas all tubular and deeply ..."

4. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"In the homogamous types all the flowers of the head arc usually hermaphrodite. ... It is properly heterogamous, but homogamous ligulate and homogamous ..."

5. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1906)
"Racemes solitary or terminal upon the culm or Its branches. Spikelets Imbricated, the first to fifth pairs homogamous. Awns large, those of all the ..."

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