-gamous Definition
gəməs
suffix
Having a specified number of marriages.
Monogamous.
American Heritage
Practicing a specified kind of marriage.
Exogamous.
American Heritage
Having a specified kind of reproduction or reproductive organs.
Heterogamous.
American Heritage
affix
Marrying, uniting sexually.
Heterogamous, polygamous.
Webster's New World
Origin of -gamous
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From Greek -gamos from gamos marriage gemə- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Ancient Greek γάμος (gámos, “union, marriage”).
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