[hɒˈmɒɡəmi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- marriage between people from similar sociological or educational backgrounds

- inbreeding, especially as a result of isolation

- a state in which the flowers of a plant are all of one type (either hermaphrodite or of the same sex)

- the simultaneous ripening of the stamens and pistils of a flower, ensuring self-pollination


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Origin:
late 19th century: from homo- ‘same’ + Greek gamos ‘marriage’