Bot. [f. Gr. αὐτο- self + -γαμία marriage; cf. Gr. αὐτόγαμος willingly married.] Self-fertilization. Autogamic a., characterized by, or fit for, autogamy.
1880. Gray, Bot. Text-Bk., vi. § 4. 216. Autogamy, the application and action of a flower’s pollen upon its own pistil.
1881. Moore, in Jrnl. Bot., X. 85. Small open [flowers] with a modification of the stigmas rendering them autogamic.
