het·er·og·a·my /-mi/
  異配生植; 花型異性
  het·er·og·a·my /-mɪ/ 名詞
  配子體異型
  Het·er·og·a·my n.
  1. Bot. The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
  2. Biol. That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate.
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