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adelphogamous

adelphogamous adjective: of, related to, or engaging in adelphogamy.

Adjective

adelphogamous (comparative more adelphogamous, superlative most adelphogamous)

  1. Of, related to, or engaging in adelphogamy.
    • Furthermore, the constancy of adelphogamous marriages in the phylogeny of Anergates is a phenomenon the like of which is as yet unknown in nature.1928, August Forel, The Social World of the Ants, page 407
    • Abydos was the ancestral abode of the adelphogamous Ahmose and its associated Turkish city, and Parisina, the grandmother-in-law of Lucrezia Borgia, was incestuous in her own right.1973, Luciano P. R. Santiago, The Children of Oedipus: Brother-Sister Incest in Psychiatry, Literature, History and Mythology, page 114

Forms of adelphogamous

comparativemore adelphogamous
superlativemost adelphogamous

Origin of adelphogamous

From adelpho- + -gamous.

Questions about adelphogamous

What does adelphogamous mean?
Adelphogamous means of, related to, or engaging in adelphogamy.
What part of speech is adelphogamous?
Adelphogamous is an adjective.

Words near adelphogamous in the dictionary

  1. Adelphians
  2. adelphias
  3. adelphic
  4. Adelphius
  5. adelpho-
  6. adelphogamous
  7. adelphogamy
  8. adelphoi
  9. adelphomyine
  10. adelphomyines
  11. adelphoparasite

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