homogamy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same plant. uncountable
  2. The quality of being homogamous. uncountable
  3. Breeding between similar individuals. uncountable
  4. Marriage or other union between similar people, or people of the same sex. uncountable
    — Surgeons no longer pursue nurses as they did when the former were most likely men and the latter women; now they go for anaesthetists or other surgeons. In one sense homogamy is desirable, because it means women are less dependent on status-asymmetric marriages; in another, it’s dismal because it constitutes a form of social closure […]

词汇关系

衍生词
homogamic
相关词
homogamous

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *somHós
Proto-Hellenic *homós
Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)der.
English homo-
English -gamy
English homogamy
From homo- + -gamy.
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