somatogamy Biol.
(səʊməˈtɒgəmɪ)
[ad. G. somatogamie (O. Renner 1916, in Biol. Centralbl. XXXVI. 349): see somato- and -gamy.]
= pseudogamy b. So somaˈtogamous a.
| 1949 I. F. & W. D. Henderson Dict. Sci. Terms (ed. 4) 403/2 Somatogamy, pseudogamy; pseudomixis. 1950 W. B. Brierley tr. Gäumann's Princ. Plant Infection iii. 20 The nuclear association, initiated by somatogamous fusion, constitutes..the pre-condition for transition from the saprophytic to the parasitic mode of life. 1962 G. Dalldorf Fungi & Fungous Diseases x. 136 In fungi that undergo somatogamy, such as yeasts. |