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Definition of Homostylic
1. Adjective. (botany) having styles all of the same length.
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Partainyms: Style, Style, Style
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homostylic
Literary usage of Homostylic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fertilisation of Flowers by Hermann Müller (1883)
"... to show the protecting hairs (x 4J). there is in them, as Darwin has shown in
the case of Primula sinensis, a return to the homostylic condition (609). ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1900)
"By introducing new plant species into our gardens, it is therefore always to be
recommended, even when the species are hermaphrodite, homostylic, ..."
3. Transactions of the Essex Field Club by Essex Field Club (1883)
"[Miiller also states ('Die Befruchtung der Blumen') that P. long/flora is
homostylic, and adapted by its long narrow corolla-tube for fertilization by ..."
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