self-compatible

[self-kuhm-pat-uh-buhl]

adjective

Botany.

1. (of a plant species or cultivar) able to be fertilized by its own pollen.

self-compatible

adjective

1. (of a plant) capable of self-fertilization

Other Word Forms

• self-compatibility noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-compatible¹

First recorded in 1915–20; self- ( def. ) + compatible (in the sense “capable of cross-pollinating”)

Example Sentences

Unlike most species in the /Prunus/ genus, the plant will accept its own pollen, it is ‘self-compatible’.

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