-gamy
a combining form with the meanings “marriage,” “union,” “fertilization, pollination,” of the kind specified by the initial element: exogamy; plastogamy; allogamy; also forming nouns corresponding to adjectives ending in -gamous:
heterogamy.
-gamy
combining form
denoting marriage or s-xual union bigamy
word origin
-gamy suff.
marriage; mate: monogamy.
procreative or propagative union: heterogamy.
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