plastogamy

English

Etymology

From plasto- +‎ -gamy.

Noun

plastogamy (uncountable)

1. Synonym of plasmogamy
   • 1894, Herbert P. Johnson, The Plastogamy of Actinosphaerium, page 269:

     The significance of plastogamy is still very obscure, and it is extremely probably that it is not the same in all cases.

   • 1964, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, A Treatise on Zoology, page 32:

     The frequent occurrence of plastogamy between adult individuals makes it very possible that all the nuclei in the same body may not be of the same origin; and therefore the formation of the primary cyst-nuclei by the fusion of two others might, in many cases, at least, mean the fusion of nuclei originally produced in different individual bodies (Schaudinn).

   • 1973, John D. Hopkirk, Endemism in Fishes of the Clear Lake Region of Central California, page 101:

     The presence of these in the pseudopodial bolus might conceivably be the stimulus for plastogamy or at least be an indication of the receptive condition of the organism.