Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to an organism, especially a plant, in which the female reproductive organs mature before the male reproductive organs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to protogyny; characterized or affected by protogyny.
- In botany, same as
proterogynous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Same as
proterogynous .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Exhibiting
protogyny . - adjective botany Whose female parts (
stigma ) becomesmature before the male ones (anthers ). - adjective botany Whose female parts (
archegonia ) mature before the male parts (antheridia ) release theirspermatozoids .
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Examples
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While growing up at the aquarium, he turned into a male, a common phenomenon among many fish species known as 'protogynous hermaphroditic.'
A fish story (or two) M-mv 2003
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While growing up at the aquarium, he turned into a male, a common phenomenon among many fish species known as 'protogynous hermaphroditic.'
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While growing up at the aquarium, he turned into a male, a common phenomenon among many fish species known as 'protogynous hermaphroditic.'
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While growing up at the aquarium, he turned into a male, a common phenomenon among many fish species known as 'protogynous hermaphroditic.'
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While growing up at the aquarium, he turned into a male, a common phenomenon among many fish species known as 'protogynous hermaphroditic.'
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While growing up at the aquarium, he turned into a male, a common phenomenon among many fish species known as 'protogynous hermaphroditic.'
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"With Butterick ... the order was reversed, as the period of receptivity began first," and it was classified, therefore, as regularly protogynous.
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Mr. Reed listed as protandrous Busseron, Kentucky, Major, and Niblack varieties, whereas Butterick, Indiana, and Posey were protogynous.
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On the other hand, the slender filaments, versatile anthers, powdery pollen, and elongated protogynous style are features of other species indicating anemophily; while the presence of a degraded corolla shows its ancestors to have been entomophilous.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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The present study explores this prediction by comparing the social organisation and sex-specific growth of two populations of a protogynous tropical wrasse, Halichoeres miniatus, which differ in density.
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