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adj. - Pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe; Characterized by or fit for fertilization by a flower that is not closely related.

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  • They even have a mathematics for it, with empirical formulas and symbols for "lateral pressures" and "exchange valences" and "exogamic relief."
  • If a group is exogamic, the women in it were born abroad somewhere.
  • The clans were exogamic as to their own members, as were also the phratries in primitive times.
  • The particular exogamic customs vary considerably among early tribes, the differences following, in general, differences of social organization.
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