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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as heterostylism.

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  • noun botany The condition of having unequal styles

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  • Technically, this adaptation is known as heterostyly.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Technically, this adaptation is known as heterostyly.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • The other sessions I went to on Saturday were on phylogenetic reconstruction with inverted DNA sequences near bacterial replicon origins, evolution education in tropical greenhouses in New York City, several papers on Begonia pollination in Central America, and a paper following up on Darwin’s work on heterostyly in Primula flowers.

    Prof. Steve Steve (invisible edition) at Evolution 2006 - The Panda's Thumb 2006

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