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androdiaulic

androdiaulic adjective: having two reproductive duct systems, one for the delivery of sperm, and the other for receiving sperm and depositing eggs.

Adjective

androdiaulic (not comparable)

  1. Having two reproductive duct systems, one for the delivery of sperm, and the other for receiving sperm and depositing eggs.
    • In androdiaulic and triaulic forms the movement of sperm is largely by muscular action, but the function of congealing the sperm into a more or less unitary mass is retained by the prostate.1964, Michael T. Ghiselin, Reproductive Function and the Evolution of Opisthobranch Gastropods
    • Two other species of Ringicula have either an incomplete separation of the female and male ducts or a complete separation, becoming an androdiaulic system (see below).2010, Janet Leonard, Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals, →ISBN, page 157

Origin of androdiaulic

From andro- + diaulic.

Questions about androdiaulic

What does androdiaulic mean?
Androdiaulic means having two reproductive duct systems, one for the delivery of sperm, and the other for receiving sperm and depositing eggs.
What part of speech is androdiaulic?
Androdiaulic is an adjective.

Words near androdiaulic in the dictionary

  1. androcracies
  2. androcracy
  3. androcratic
  4. androctonin
  5. Androcydes
  6. androdiaulic
  7. androdiecious
  8. androdioecious
  9. androdioecism
  10. androdioecy
  11. androdynamic

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