Definition of Dichogamy

1. n. The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.

Definition of Dichogamy

1. Noun. (biology) The condition in which an organism changes sex during its lifetime. ¹

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Definition of Dichogamy

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Medical Definition of Dichogamy

1. The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves. Origin: Gr. In two, asunder + marriage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichogamy

dichlorophenol
dichlorophenolindophenol
dichlorophenolindophenol reductase
dichlorophenols
dichlorophenylphosphine
dichlororibofuranosylbenzimidazole
dichlorosilane
dichlorosilanes
dichlorovos
dichlorphenamide
dichlorvos
dichlorvoses
dichocephalic
dichogamies
dichogamous
dichondra
dichondras
dichoptic
dichord
dichords
dichorial
dichorionic diamniotic placenta
dichotic
dichotic listening tests
dichotically
dichotomic
dichotomies
dichotomisation

Literary usage of Dichogamy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"In Sabbat ¡a, the large-flowered species of Epilobium, and strikingly in Clerodendron, the dichogamy is supplemented and perfected by movements of the ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"So there is absolutely nothing in connection with the visits of insects to account for dichogamy, which is solely an accident of climatic environment. ..."

3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1889)
"So there is absolutely nothing in connection with the visits of insects to account for dichogamy, which is solely an accident of climatic environment. ..."

4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"So there is absolutely nothing in connection with the visits of insects to account for dichogamy, which is solely an accident of climatic environment. ..."

5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... now visit these flowers to suck up the juice of the pulpy petals, and at the same time the stigma is pollinated with Kg. 292.—dichogamy In ..."

6. Problems in Botany by William Lewis Eikenberry (1919)
"By dichogamy is meant the maturing of stamens and stigma in a flower at different times. The maturity of the stamen may be judged by the shedding of the ..."

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