Relating to or characterized by chalazogamy, the botanical process where pollen fertilizes plants through the chalaza rather than the normal opening.
From Greek 'chalaza' + 'gamos' + '-ic' (relating to). Formed in botanical terminology to classify reproductive variations.
This is one of nature's botanical rebels—some plant lineages somehow evolved this alternative fertilization route, suggesting incredible flexibility in how life solves the problem of reproduction!
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