Xenogamy
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Marital - Marriage between people from different backgrounds - especially from foreign lands (or in fiction, from alien worlds); a more extreme/diverse form of heterogamy.
[Botany] - Floral fertilisation by genetically different [pollen].
Origin: From Greek [xenos] (stranger) and gamos (marriage).
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Fertilization of a flower by pollen from a flower on a genetically different plant.
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[marriage] with [a foreigner].
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