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gynandrosporous

gynandrosporous adjective: having reproductive organs with both male and female functions.

Adjective

gynandrosporous (not comparable)

  1. Having reproductive organs with both male and female functions.
    • In Œdogonium, varies as are the conditions between monœcious, gynandrosporous, and diœcious, under which the essential elements concerned in the reproduction present themselves, there seems to be still less difference, on the whole, in form and size of the spermatozoid and the oogonium themselves...1865, William Archer, “Observations on the Genera Cylindrocystis (Meneghini), Mesotænium (Näg.), and Spirotænia (Breb.), (= Palmoghlœa, Kütz. pro maxima parte), mainly induced by a paper by Dr. J....
    • This variety differs from the type variety Oe. kozminskii Prescott. var. kozminskii (Prescott, 1944,1951) by its smaller size, gynandrosporous habit and by the strongly capitellate vegetative cells.1965, Pakistan Journal of Biological and Agricultural Sciences, page 178

Origin of gynandrosporous

From gyn- + andro- + spore + -ous.

Questions about gynandrosporous

What does gynandrosporous mean?
Gynandrosporous means having reproductive organs with both male and female functions.
What part of speech is gynandrosporous?
Gynandrosporous is an adjective.

Words near gynandrosporous in the dictionary

  1. gynandromorphophiles
  2. gynandromorphophilia
  3. gynandromorphous
  4. gynandromorphs
  5. gynandromorphy
  6. gynandrosporous
  7. gynandrous
  8. gynandry
  9. gynantherous
  10. gynarchal
  11. gynarchic

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