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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

gámo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ˈɡa.mo/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Gamous/ˈɡeɪ.məs/
adjectiveCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #15000 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Los organismos gámos presentan estructuras reproductivas específicas."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Characterized by marriage or mating; having a specified type or number of marriage partners.

    "The species exhibits a diverse range of gamous behaviors depending on environmental pressures."
  2. 2

    In botany and zoology, having visible reproductive organs or producing gametes.

    "Certain lower plants transition through various gamous phases during their life cycle."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek word 'gamos', meaning marriage or union, combined with the English adjectival suffix '-ous'. It entered technical and biological English in the 19th century to describe organisms or social systems characterized by marriage or mating.

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