Cenogamy vs. Xenogamy

Cenogamynoun

The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, i.e. in which husbands and wives are shared and held in common.

Cenogamynoun

The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.

Xenogamynoun

(botany) The transfer of pollen from the anthers of one plant to the stigma of another; cross-pollination

Xenogamynoun

Cross-cultural marriage

Xenogamynoun

Cross fertilization.

Xenogamy

Xenogamy (Greek xenos=stranger, gamos=marriage) is the transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the stigma of a different plant. This is the only type of cross pollination which during pollination brings genetically different types of pollen grains to the stigma.The term xenogamy (along with geitonogamy and autogamy) was first suggested by Kerner in 1876.