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HETEROGAMOUS
Definition of HETEROGAMOUS
adjective
in which the stamens and pistils are not present in every flower; i.e. there are male and female flowers in the daisy family Asteraceae, having two types of flowers in a flower head (such as some sterile, some hermaphrodite, or some female, some hermaphrodite)
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Where it comes from
From hetero- + -gamous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HETEROGAMOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HETEROGAMOUS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEGHMOORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and O appear more than once.
Words that start HETEROGA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HETEROGAMOUS?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 81 - and most players walked straight past it.
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