How To Use Hermaphrodite In A Sentence
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Those unfamiliar with the term "intersex" may still recognize the term "hermaphrodite" -- a single human possessing both male and female genitalia -- which is one variety of intersexuality.
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Potentially the hermaphrodite dissolves gender difference and, at least in its associated idea of androgyny, has become acceptable.
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The barramundi is also a hermaphrodite, born male but switching to female at sexual maturity, at around five years old, when they begin travelling downstream to spawn.
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IT _may be expected by some faithless Persons, that I should produce an_ HERMAPHRODITE _to publick View, as an incontestible Justification of there being Humane Creatures of this kind; but as I have no Authority to take up the Petticoats of any Female without her Consent, I hope to be excus'd from making such demonstrable Proofs; and if I had such a Power, the Sight might endanger the Welfare of some pregnant Female, whose
Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites
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There is thus a dynamic interaction between the processes of sex allocation and other sexually selected strategies in animal hermaphrodites.
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There may seem to be a lot of men supporting you Iain but some of them will be Lib Dems are better referred to as spavined hermaphrodites not knowing which way to turn.
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The pauciflorous capitulum consists of outer female florets with short ligules, inner hermaphrodite florets without a pappus, and five outer involucral bracts, up to 2 cm long, possessing long-stalked glandular hairs.
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In all but two plants examined, this flower matured as a hermaphrodite; in the exceptions, the carpel aborted, producing a male flower.
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The pistillate flower of the cyathium develops before the male ones; thus each cyathium is functionally a protogynous hermaphrodite ‘flower’.
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Nilotes held the moon to be of “male-female sex,” the men sacrificing to Luna and the women to Lunus. 387 Isis also was a hermaphrodite, the idea being that Aether or Air (the lower heavens) was the menstruum of generative nature; and Damascius explained the tenet by the all-fruitful and prolific powers of the atmosphere.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The painting presents a heavily pregnant two-tone, two-headed, hermaphrodite figure in x-ray on a background of what also appears to be a row of x-rayed teeth.
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Nudibranchs are hermaphrodites - with both male and female sexual equipment - and they meet in groups, attracted by pheromones.
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In wild-type hermaphrodites, germ cells at the dorsoventral flexure exit the pachytene stage of the first meiotic prophase and proceed to diakinesis.
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Temperature-determined outcrossing ability in wild populations of a simultaneous hermaphrodite snail.
Parasite Rex
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Those unfamiliar with the term "intersex" may still recognize the term "hermaphrodite" -- a single human possessing both male and female genitalia -- which is one variety of intersexuality.
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A long tail on the survival curve, representing a small minority of long-lived survivors, was seen in male but not hermaphrodite populations.
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As something of a London scholar I can assure you that the notion is as ludicrous as suggesting that the author of "White Fang" was a cross-dressing hermaphrodite who buried his sexual shame in manly exploits.
Essays
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It also shows favorable features for vulva genetics: self-fertilizing hermaphrodites with facultative males and a fast life cycle.
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Because earthworms are hermaphrodites, no sexual differences were taken into account during the experiments.
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Naturally, hearing the word hermaphrodite reminded me of my stepmother.
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Ecological correlates of male outcrossing ability in a simultaneous hermaphrodite snail.
Parasite Rex
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All individuals were selected from sibships that had both female and hermaphrodite progeny, so all individuals carried a fertility cytoplasm that is susceptible to restoration.
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They are hermaphrodites who produce both eggs and sperm but while they are able to reproduce asexually, they do usually mate with other giant snails.
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In two lines, XX transgenic mice developed as females, and in three lines XX transgenic mice developed as females, hermaphrodites, or males.
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Indeed, like most flowering plants, both forms were hermaphrodites.
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Here's a snip from a news article that describes her with the derogatory term "hermaphrodite":
Boing Boing
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In the overall context of the evolution of reproductive systems from hermaphroditism toward dioecy (system in which individuals are exclusively either male or female), mixed systems involving the presence in the same species of both females and hermaphrodites (gynodioecy) or both males and hermaphrodites (androdioecy) are considered intermediaries derived from hermaphroditism.
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Proteins encoded by sperm genes in both males and hermaphrodites evolve more rapidly than most other types of genes.
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To determine whether hermaphrodite flowers in andromonoecious and hermaphrodite plants is due to loss of a CsACS2 enzymatic activity, we expressed the four different forms of the protein as six-histidine tag (His
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The word hijra is an Urdu word meaning eunuch or hermaphrodite.
The Hijra Subculture: India's Transvestites
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Its flowers, however, are very fugacious, so much so that it is difficult to obtain good specimens, the mere gathering causing them to fall; hermaphrodite flowers, though carefully sought, were not seen.
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Perhaps most interesting is Dieta Sixt, a self-described hermaphrodite who investigated her female side, then her male side, and has finally settled somewhere in the middle.
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Double transgenic hermaphrodites were subjected to heat shock to activate the heat-shock promoter and thereby express the transposase enzyme.
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We propose that both controls are general and do not constitute a novel ‘switch’ that enables sexual mosaicism in hermaphrodites.
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The idea of the hermaphrodite who has fully functioning male and female organs and is capable of self-fertilization is a myth, though a very persistent one, which has long exercised a fascination over the human mind.
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Furthermore, seeds produced by female plants are the result of outcrossing with males, but seeds produced on hermaphrodite plants may be the result of selfing, if this species is self-compatible.
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When males were present in the brood, hermaphrodites were separated from males during the final larval stage to preserve their virginity.
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This nematode reproduces primarily by self-fertilization of adult hermaphrodites, although males can develop under special conditions.
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Polyps, sponges, and cystic entozoa, may also be included among hermaphrodites.
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The term hermaphrodite is now outmoded and regarded as derogatory by intersexuals.
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The Procrustes 'social structure is class-based, with lowly manual laborers (like the Engineer called Smith) being fourth-class citizens, their lives in the hands of the noble captain (a hermaphrodite named Ereshkigal) and her vassals.
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Common calyx cylindrical, 2 circles of oval, scarious leaflets around its border, 11 hermaphrodite disk-flowers and about 5 pistillate ray-flowers.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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Now, a new study provides the first experimental evidence that some hermaphrodite animals also benefit from promoting maleness when faced with troublesome conditions.
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There are an unusually high number of male pseudohermaphrodite births in Gaza neighborhood of Jabalya in part, doctors say, because it is customary in this socially conservative society for cousins to marry each other.
CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2009
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The breeding system of the dichogamous hermaphrodite species Silene acutifolia, endemic to north-west Spain and north and central Portugal, is examined.
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We observed complete interference for both oogenesis and spermatogenesis in hermaphrodite animals and for the entire lengths of both an autosome and the X chromosome.
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In plants we find that under low resourced conditions, poor resourced conditions, the plants flower as males, and then under better conditions they flower as hermaphrodites and express female function.
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When examined under a dissecting scope, hermaphrodites fed Cry5B toxin for 2-3 days develop decrepit internal morphology, have pale coloration, and move slowly.
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Having only one type of sexual organ; not a hermaphrodite.
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Potentially the hermaphrodite dissolves gender difference and, at least in its associated idea of androgyny, has become acceptable.
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The two men then announced that a year-long study would be commissioned to establish how the military would accommodate those who seek to serve but who insist on doing so as avowedly gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and "intersexed" (formerly known as hermaphrodite) folks.
Catholic Exchange
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The occurrence of heteromorphic unions renders it necessary to keep in mind that plants hermaphrodite as to structure are by no means necessarily so as to function.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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In other words, before even seeing me, Luce was able to make an educated guess that I was a male pseudohermaphrodite — genetically male but appearing otherwise, with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency syndrome.
Middlesex
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A second approach to looking for imprinting in C. elegans has been to generate diploid animals in which both copies of a given chromosome are derived from the same parent, from either the male parent or hermaphrodite parent.
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Poor old Kyle and Chardonnay have had nothing much to do this series, except provide a stream of public service information about hermaphrodite babies.
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But in some genera the larvae become developed either into hermaphrodites having the ordinary structure, or into what I have called complemental males: and in the latter, the development has assuredly been retrograde; for the male is a mere sack, which lives for a short time, and is destitute of mouth, stomach, or other organ of importance, excepting for reproduction.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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However, even in hermaphrodites, male and female meiosis may not occur at the same time - and therefore may occur under different conditions.
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This situation never happens for nuclear genes because at least half of the nuclear genes carried by females necessarily derive from hermaphrodite parents.
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Most Pampas grass plants are either male or female, though odd plants may be hermaphrodite.
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All individuals were selected from sibships that had both female and hermaphrodite progeny, so all individuals carried a fertility cytoplasm that is susceptible to restoration.
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Speed Racer (Wachowski Bros.) [as demented narratively as it is visually; great fun]; XXY (Lucia Puenzo) [gathered festival props but not much else; absorbing both in its opening, a kind of literalized Cronenberg feast of meat being sliced and anatomies and wounds on display galore, then develops into a surprisingly sensitive and universal examination of inchoate teen sexual longing; the fact that it's about a hermaphrodite ultimately seems kind of irrelevant];
The House Next Door
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By contrast, mutant hermaphrodites are self-sterile when unmated due to a failure in spermatid activation.
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However, when pollinators were excluded from the flowers at night but not in the day, there was no effect on fruit set in female plants and even a slight increase in hermaphrodite plants.
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The fruit shop is OK, more or less, except for the albino hermaphrodite delivery person, and the awful trick all the other people who work there have of smiling so intensely their eyes get squashed shut.
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The Hermaphrodite cyathium shows the characteristics measured (length and width of the cyathium involucre and the nectary).
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The yellowish-green to white perianth of male and hermaphrodite flowers is tubular.
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In simultaneous hermaphrodites, both male and female roles are present in the same individual.
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But in some genera the larvæ become developed into hermaphrodites having the ordinary structure, and into what I have called complemental males; and in the latter the development has assuredly been retrograde, for the male is a mere sack, which lives for a short time and is destitute of mouth, stomach, and every other organ of importance, excepting those for reproduction.
XIV. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology-Embryology-Rudimentary Organs. Development and Embryology
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In Hayes' study, African clawed frog tadpoles exposed to levels of atrazine commonly found in the environment were demasculinized and turned into hermaphrodites - creatures with both male and female genitalia.
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I am as unwilling to believe in gemmiparous insects as in hermaphrodite insects.
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The widely used herbicide atrazine can convert male frogs into hermaphrodites.
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And first of all, if I could just say no bias no bull, the term hermaphrodite, which the good doctor used is considered to be profoundly outdated.
CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2009
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The rates of births for which sex was uncertain, or of births diagnosed as hermaphrodites, were studied for 4-year periods from 1967 to 1998.
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We have heard of a recent trustworthy account of a pregnancy and delivery in a girl who had been impregnated by a bed-fellow who on examination proved to be a male pseudohermaphrodite.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Each plant was marked at the beginning of the flowering and visited every 7-10 days, noting the number of male and hermaphrodite cyathia at each level of the inflorescence.
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After some research on the term hermaphrodite on wikipedia, it is now known as chimerism, but the general term that covers all those conditions is intersex.
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A third possibility is that the Belle Isle bamboo shark is a hermaphrodite, harboring both male and female sex organs, and capable of fertilizing its own eggs.
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Snails are hermaphrodites (male & female) and can have 200 eggs.
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It has a 4-day life cycle and propagates as self-fertilizing hermaphrodites or by outcrossing after the spontaneous generation of males.
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The Hippocratic paradigm assumed that sex existed along a sort of continuum from the extreme male to the extreme female and that the hermaphrodite therefore was s/he who lay in the middle.
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As my comment made abundantly clear, in some contexts, consideration of sexual preference is a factor of "ability to do the job" rather than of "prejudice or bigotry" assuming, arguendo, that we accept the concept of "intersexed" - which I take it is a euphemism for "transgendered" rather than hermaphrodite.
Get ready for the government to look at you with X-ray eyes.
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Bixads, and allied to MELICYTUS, but with hermaphrodite flowers. 158 A submerged plant, in the water, was found to be a new species of MYRIOPHYLLUM, with tuberculate fruit. 159 CASSIA
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Such individuals are able to reproduce, and most adult hermaphrodite bears are actually females that successfully raise cubs.
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Female wrasses are called protogynous hermaphrodites, which means they can change sex to become males should there be a need, such as when a dominant male is eaten, dies, or is chased away.
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Hermaphrodites were rarely observed in a study on the Japanese hagfish.
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In this population, the male cyathia produced on average 100 pollen grains more per stamen than the hermaphrodites, but this difference was not significant.
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Animals developed as perfectly normal hermaphrodites if derived from a heterozygous hermaphrodite mother.
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As something of a London scholar I can assure you that the notion is as ludicrous as suggesting that the author of "White Fang" was a cross-dressing hermaphrodite who buried his sexual shame in manly exploits.
Essays
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Wild beets are gynodioecious: both female and hermaphrodite individuals coexist frequently within natural populations.
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There are an unusually high number of male pseudohermaphrodite births in the Gaza neighborhood of Jabalya, where Nadir and Ahmed live.
Bloodthirsty Liberal
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Capitula with all florets of one sexual state, either male, female or hermaphrodite and heterogamous when florets of more than one sexual state are present.
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This allowed construction of a male / hermaphrodite strain.
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But in some genera the larvæ become developed either into hermaphrodites having the ordinary structure, or into what I have called complemental males: and in the latter, the development has assuredly been retrograde; for the male is
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)
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However, seeds from hermaphrodite trees always segregate into hermaphrodites and females at the ratio of 2: 1 and the sex types of the plants can be determined only by inspection of the flowers.
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Earlier this year another team of scientists reported the creation of a hermaphrodite embryo containing male and female cells.
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First, and in keeping with Plato's Symposium, the hermaphrodite represents the perfect wholeness of the primordial androgyne.
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Gynodioecy, the coexistence of hermaphrodite and female (male sterile) individuals in natural populations, is relatively frequent in angiosperm species.
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Most flowering plant species are hermaphrodite and possess flowers in which male and female reproductive organs are in close proximity.
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Soon the population consists of hermaphrodites and females, the latter possessing the male-killing gene.
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A small number of eunuchs are hermaphrodites, possessing both male and female characteristics, or transvestites.
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These were cases whose basic question was anatomy - regarding hermaphrodites, castrates, and impotent men - and they reveal much about anxieties then prevalent concerning sexual categorization.
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Hermaphrodite flowers; ovary 3-3.5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, rather acutely trigonous or 4-sided according to position.
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SELF-incompatibility is a genetic mechanism used by hermaphrodite plants to prevent self-fertilization and to promote outbreeding.
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Under natural photoperiodic conditions protandry in hermaphrodite disc flowers of sunflower is determined by the different elongation rates of the style and filaments.
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Darwin deduced that the first flowers to open sometimes aborted because they were of no use in dichogamous hermaphrodite plants.
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One female and one hermaphrodite plant that did not produce any fruit were excluded from the analyses.
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Single-sex groups of males, but not hermaphrodites, were observed to congregate into clumps of animals attempting to mate with one another.
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Twenty female and 20 hermaphrodite plants were chosen randomly in each population.
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We have accounts of dimidiate hermaphrodite lobster, male in one half and female in the other half of the body.
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Some butterflies are dimidiate hermaphrodites; _i. e._ one side of the body has the form and color of the male, the other the form and color of the female.
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Schnizlein [201] observed hermaphrodite flowers in the beech, _Fagus sylvatica_, the ovaries being smaller than usual, and the stamens epigynous.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
