Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female: said of grasses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses.
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- adjective botany Having one of the two
florets in the samespikelet neuter , and the otherunisexual , whethermale orfemale ; said ofgrasses .
Etymologies
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hemi- + -gamous
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