Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, exhibiting or characterized by proterogyny. See extract under proterandrous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to
proterandrous .
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- adjective botany Having the
pistil come tomaturity before thestamens ;protogynous .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek earlier + woman, female.
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Examples
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Your view of its origin, from being proterogynous, seems to me very probable, especially as the females are generally the later-flowering plants.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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