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— William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

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To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.

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syngamy

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The fusion of two gametes to form a zygote.

In a Sentence

“During fertilization, the sperm and egg undergo syngamy to form a single zygote.”

Origin

From Greek syn‑‘together’ + gamē ‘marriage’.

Common Phrases

. syngamyoccurs syngamytakes syngamy
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Synonyms

fertilization

Antonyms

asexual reproduction

Related Words

aneugenysexual reproductionagamogenesisfusioncross-fertilizationsynapsogenesisparabiosissynanagrammatism

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