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exogamies

exogamies is the plural of exogamy.

Meaning of exogamy

Noun

exogamy (countable and uncountable, plural exogamies)

  1. Marriage to or mating with a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own, especially as required by custom or law.
    • The daughters of Danaüs thus apparently stand for mother-right, which usually occurs in conjunction with exogamy, marriage outside the family or clan.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 226
  2. The fusion of two unrelated gametes.
    Antonyms:
    endogamy

Questions about exogamies

What is exogamies the plural of?
Exogamies is the plural of exogamy.

Words near exogamies in the dictionary

  1. exofacial
  2. exofacially
  3. exofocal
  4. exogalactic
  5. exogamic
  6. exogamies
  7. exogamist
  8. exogamists
  9. exogamous
  10. exogamously
  11. exogamy

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