Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having bilateral symmetry, as the flowers of a pea plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, same as
zygomorphous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Symmetrical bilaterally; -- said of organisms, or parts of organisms, capable of division into two symmetrical halves only in a single plane.
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- adjective biology having
bilateral symmetry
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of division into symmetrical halves by only one longitudinal plane passing through the axis
Etymologies
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Examples
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[Wikipedia. com] Freesias are zygomorphic, meaning that they grow along only the side of the stem.
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Freesias are zygomorphic, meaning that they grow along only the side of the stem.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] MindyMo 2009
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Freesias are zygomorphic, meaning that they grow along only the side of the stem.
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[Wikipedia. com] Freesias are zygomorphic, meaning that they grow along only the side of the stem.
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[Wikipedia. com] Freesias are zygomorphic, meaning that they grow along only the side of the stem.
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From these experiments, as well as from very numerous studies on the structure of the flower with reference to insect aid in fertilization, we are justified in the conclusion that all bright-colored flowers are, to a great extent, dependent upon insect aid for transferring the pollen from one flower to another, and that many, especially those with tubular or zygomorphic (bilateral) flowers are perfectly incapable of self-fertilization.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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I am not sure whether such peloric flowers have ever been purely pollinated and their seed saved separately, but I have often observed that the race comes pure from the seed of the zygomorphic flowers.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Lateral pelories are generally of zygomorphic structure, though of course in a less degree than the normal bilabiate flowers, but they have unequal spurs, the middle one being of the ordinary length, the two neighboring being shorter, and those standing next to the opposite side of the flower being the shortest of all.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Rational Review 2009
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Lecythidaceae - Part II: the zygomorphic-flowered New World Genera (Couroupita, Corythophora, Bertholletia, Couratari, Eschweilera, & Lecythis).
hernesheir commented on the word zygomorphic
(adj): cf. zygomorphous
December 31, 2008