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paragynous

paragynous adjective: incompletely surrounding the oogonial stalk.

Adjective

paragynous (not comparable)

  1. Incompletely surrounding the oogonial stalk
    • Main differences were the prevalence of paragynous instead of amphigynous antheridia, the formation of chlamydospores and a maximum temperature for growth of 35°C. For the remaining two taxa, preliminary morphological examination and ITS sequence analysis showed they could not be assigned to any...2015 December 10, “Diversity of Phytophthora Species from Declining Mediterranean Maquis Vegetation, including Two New Species, Phytophthora crassamura and P. ornamentata sp. nov.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of paragynous

From para- + gyno- + -ous.

Questions about paragynous

What does paragynous mean?
Paragynous means incompletely surrounding the oogonial stalk.
What part of speech is paragynous?
Paragynous is an adjective.

Words near paragynous in the dictionary

  1. Paraguayanness
  2. Paraguayans
  3. paraguayo peach
  4. paraguayo peaches
  5. paragutta
  6. paragynous
  7. Parah Adumah
  8. parahaemophilia
  9. parahallucination
  10. parahallucinations
  11. parahaoma

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