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cœnogamy

cœnogamy is the obsolete spelling of cenogamy.

Meaning of cenogamy

Noun

cenogamy (uncountable)

  1. 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.

Questions about cœnogamy

What is cœnogamy the obsolete spelling of?
Cœnogamy is the obsolete spelling of cenogamy.

Words near cœnogamy in the dictionary

  1. cœnobitic
  2. cœnobitical
  3. cœnobitism
  4. cœnobium
  5. cœnobiums
  6. cœnogamy
  7. cœnosarc
  8. cœnosarcs
  9. cœnæstheses
  10. cœnæsthesia
  11. cœnæsthesis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cœnogamy (page history and authors); cenogamy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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