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One can be monogamous, polygamous exogamous, endogamous, or autogamous. Have I missed any gamous?
  

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[nq:1]One can be monogamous, polygamous exogamous, endogamous, or autogamous. [/nq] Homogamous. Like Harvey Milk.

  • [nq:1]One can be monogamous, polygamous exogamous, endogamous, or autogamous.
  • [/nq] Homogamous.
  • Like Harvey Milk.
  • Reinhold (Rey) Aman
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[nq:1]One can be monogamous, polygamous exogamous, endogamous, or autogamous. Have I missed any gamous?[/nq]
Homogamous. Like Harvey Milk.

Reinhold (Rey) Aman
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[nq:2]One can be monogamous, polygamous exogamous, endogamous, or autogamous. Have I missed any gamous?[/nq]
[nq:1]Homogamous. Like Harvey Milk.[/nq]
And heterogamous, like Bob.

Reinhold (Rey) Aman
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[nq:2]Homogamous. Like Harvey Milk.[/nq]
[nq:1]And heterogamous, like Bob.[/nq]
Also hypergamous. And, I suppose, hypogamous, although I've naver come across that one.

Don Aitken
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[nq:2]And heterogamous, like Bob.[/nq]
[nq:1]Also hypergamous. And, I suppose, hypogamous, although I've naver come across that one.[/nq]
What about a spoon of gamous frouse?
m.
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[nq:2]And heterogamous, like Bob.[/nq]
[nq:1]Also hypergamous. And, I suppose, hypogamous, although I've never come across that one.[/nq]
And pregamous, postgamous, progamous, antigamous, intergamous, intragamous, supergamous (= hypergamous), subgamous (= hypogamous), allogamous, isogamous..

Reinhold (Rey) Aman
Exgamous
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[nq:1]One can be monogamous, polygamous exogamous, endogamous, or autogamous. Have I missed any gamous?[/nq]
Several dozen - starting at agamous and going through to zooidiogamous
John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:2]Also hypergamous. And, I suppose, hypogamous, although I've never come across that one.[/nq]
[nq:1]And pregamous, postgamous, progamous, antigamous, intergamous, intragamous, supergamous (= hypergamous), subgamous (= hypogamous), allogamous, isogamous..[/nq]
As well as mixogamous, oogamous, and chasmogamous.

-skipka
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[nq:2]And pregamous, postgamous, progamous, antigamous, intergamous, intragamous, supergamous (= hypergamous), subgamous (= hypogamous), allogamous, isogamous..[/nq]
[nq:1]As well as mixogamous, oogamous, and chasmogamous.[/nq]
I'm kinda stumped. Highly educated guesses (I have a Ph.D., you know):

Mixogamous: being married to a Negro/Negress, as said of a white person? Oogamous: b
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[nq:2]One can be monogamous, polygamous exogamous, endogamous, or autogamous. Have I missed any gamous?[/nq]
[nq:1]Several dozen - starting at agamous and going through to zooidiogamous Including all the botanical ones like cleistogamous.[/nq]
Gary
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Rey filted:
[nq:1]Oogamous: being married to a woman who "oos" during ******?[/nq]
Some are screamers, others are moaners..
Once I even got a whistler..r

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