Exogamy Definition

ĕk-sŏgə-mē
noun
The custom, often inviolable, of marrying only outside one's own clan, tribe, etc.
Webster's New World
The fusion of gametes from individuals that are not closely related, as in outbreeding.
American Heritage Medicine
Cross-pollination.
Webster's New World

(biology) The fusion of two unrelated gametes.

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Other Word Forms of Exogamy

Noun

Singular:
exogamy
Plural:
exogamies

Origin of Exogamy

  • From exo- +‎ -gamy

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Exogamy Sentence Examples

  • But when we meet with a casual remark as to the tendency of the Tasmanians to take wives from other tribes than their own, it seems likely that they had some custom of exogamy which the foreigners did not understand.

  • Choice of marriage partners was limited by sib exogamy.

  • Rules of endogamy and exogamy; privileges, restricted to certain classes, of eating together, are not only Indian or Aryan, but world-wide phenomena.

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