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endogamies

endogamies is the plural of endogamy.

Meaning of endogamy

Noun

endogamy (usually uncountable, plural endogamies)

  1. (usually) The practice of marrying or requiring to marry within one's own ethnic, religious, or social group.
    • In the Suppliant Maidens the heroines seem to protest against endogamy, which prohibits marriage except between persons of the same blood or stock.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 226
  2. (usually) The fusion of two related gametes.
    Antonyms:
    exogamy

Questions about endogamies

What is endogamies the plural of?
Endogamies is the plural of endogamy.

Words near endogamies in the dictionary

  1. endogalactosidase
  2. endogalactosidases
  3. endogalacturonase
  4. endogalacturonases
  5. endogamic
  6. endogamies
  7. endogamous
  8. endogamously
  9. endogamy
  10. endogangue
  11. endogangues

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