The fertilization of flowers by pollen with which they would normally be incompatible; incomplete incompatibility, in which gametes which would normally be incompatible form a viable embryo.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Nature: a weekly journal of science.
Definition of pseudocompatibility in US English:
pseudocompatibility
noun
Botany
The fertilization of flowers by pollen with which they would normally be incompatible; incomplete incompatibility, in which gametes which would normally be incompatible form a viable embryo.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Nature: a weekly journal of science.