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exogamy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun exogamy has 1 sense
- exogamy(n = noun.state) intermarriage - marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law; Array is a kind of marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, union, wedlock
Antonym: endogamy
Derived forms adjective exogamic2, adjective exogamous2
CIDE DICTIONARY
exogamy, n.
The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy . Lubbock. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
exogamy, n.
1 Anthropol. marriage of a man outside his own tribe.
2 Biol. the fusion of reproductive cells from distantly related or unrelated individuals.
1 Anthropol. marriage of a man outside his own tribe.
2 Biol. the fusion of reproductive cells from distantly related or unrelated individuals.
Derivative
exogamous adj.
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