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n. The custom of marrying outside the tribe, family, clan, or other social unit.

n. Biology The fusion of two gametes that are not closely related.

n. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law

n. the fusion of two unrelated gametes

n. The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.

n. The custom among certain tribes which prohibits a man from marrying a woman of his own tribe.

n. In botany, the tendency of closely allied gametes to avoid pairing.

n. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law

"To put it in technical language, the succession to the kingship at Rome and probably in Latium generally would seem to have been determined by certain rules which have moulded early society in many parts of the world, namely exogamy, beena marriage, and female kinship or mother-kin."

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