[
US
/hɝˌmæfɹəˈdɪtɪk/
]
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to monoclinous plants
- of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs
How To Use hermaphroditic In A Sentence
- Most hermaphroditic mutants were phenotypically similar with a mature gynoecium composed of five carpels and 10 stamens.
- Various species may be unisexual, hermaphroditic, or have separate sexes.
- So the genetic information that determines a snail shell's coiling direction can not be found in the snail's own cells, but in those of the mother animal - in the case of the hermaphroditical land snails the snail the egg cell was from.
- A hermaphroditic reproductive organ that produces both sperm and eggs, found in certain gastropods.
- She discusses how cases out on the margins of our binary labels, such as hermaphroditic children, show the absurdities of our cultural constructions. Archive 2008-04-01
- Jefferson's PR man, a proto-Karl Rove, slammed Adams as a "repulsive pedant" and "hideous hermaphroditical character". Clancy Sigal: Wimps Don't Win
- Outcrossing is mainly achieved through dioecy and self-incompatibility, or promoted by dichogamy in the hermaphroditic flowers, and facilitated by wind pollination. Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests
- This is surprising because hermaphroditic cestodes may face social dilemma situations that are probably easier to specify than in other systems.
- Most species are hermaphroditic, 9% are dioecious, and 9% are monoecious. Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests
- We examined the genetics of hybrid incompatibility between two closely related diploid hermaphroditic plant species.