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What is the noun for exogeny?

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exogeny
  1. Influence by external forces.
  2. Growth on the outside or near the surface.
  3. (botany) A division of woody plants whose stem is formed by successive accretions to the outside of the wood under the bark
  4. (anatomy) A phase in the life cycle of a hair follicle in which a hair exits the follicle.
  5. (anthropology) Exogamy.
exogamy
  1. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own as required by custom or law
  2. (biology) the fusion of two unrelated gametes
  3. Examples:
    1. “These clans maintained strict exogamy, so wives may be brought in from elsewhere.”
      “Male exogamy was slightly higher than female exogamy for the same period and occurred most frequently among third-generation Mexican Americans.”
      “Social disapproval of ethnic exogamy is lessening, though the government unofficially discourages it.”
exogamies
  1. plural of exogamy
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