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Definition of Dichogamy
1. n. The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.
Definition of Dichogamy
1. Noun. (biology) The condition in which an organism changes sex during its lifetime. ¹
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Definition of Dichogamy
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Medical Definition of Dichogamy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichogamy
Literary usage of Dichogamy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"In Sabbat ¡a, the large-flowered species of Epilobium, and strikingly in
Clerodendron, the dichogamy is supplemented and perfected by movements of the ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"So there is absolutely nothing in connection with the visits of insects to account
for dichogamy, which is solely an accident of climatic environment. ..."
3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1889)
"So there is absolutely nothing in connection with the visits of insects to account
for dichogamy, which is solely an accident of climatic environment. ..."
4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"So there is absolutely nothing in connection with the visits of insects to account
for dichogamy, which is solely an accident of climatic environment. ..."
5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... now visit these flowers to suck up the juice of the pulpy petals, and at the
same time the stigma is pollinated with Kg. 292.—dichogamy In ..."
6. Problems in Botany by William Lewis Eikenberry (1919)
"By dichogamy is meant the maturing of stamens and stigma in a flower at different
times. The maturity of the stamen may be judged by the shedding of the ..."