Definition of Dichogamous

1. a. Manifesting dichogamy.

Definition of Dichogamous

1. Adjective. (botany) Exhibiting dichogamy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dichogamous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Dichogamous

1. Manifesting dichogamy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichogamous

dichlorophene
dichlorophenol
dichlorophenolindophenol
dichlorophenolindophenol reductase
dichlorophenols
dichlorophenylphosphine
dichlororibofuranosylbenzimidazole
dichlorosilane
dichlorosilanes
dichlorovos
dichlorphenamide
dichlorvos
dichlorvoses
dichocephalic
dichogamies
dichogamous (current term)
dichondra
dichondras
dichoptic
dichord
dichords
dichorial
dichorionic diamniotic placenta
dichotic
dichotic listening tests
dichotically
dichotomic
dichotomies

Literary usage of Dichogamous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... organs so that they are capable of fertilization at different times in the same plant, is termed dichogamy Fig. 283.— Incompletely dichogamous Flowers ..."

2. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"Insects are the main agents in the conveyance of the pollen to the stigma of other flowers of dichogamous Phanerogams, for which purpose the parts of the ..."

3. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Julius Sachs (1887)
"In the case of protogynous dichogamous flowers, the stigma is receptive at a time when ... Among protogynous dichogamous flowers Aristolochia Clematitis is ..."

4. Lessons with Plants: Suggestions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of the by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"Inasmuch dichogamous flower of as the period of blooming of any plant usually ... the dichogamous flower is likely to receive pollen from various flowers ..."

5. Botany: An Elementary Text for Schools by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"There is little chance for dichogamous flowers to pollinate themselves. Many flowers are imperfectly dichogamous—some of the anthers mature simultaneously ..."

6. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"Flowers in which the ripening of the anthers and maturing of the stigmas occur at different times are also said to be dichogamous. 658. ..."

7. First Course in Biology by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Walter Moore Coleman (1908)
"The ripening of the stamens and pistils at different times is known as dichogamy, and flowers of such character are said to be dichogamous. ..."

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