What is the meaning of HERMAPHRODITE. Phrases containing HERMAPHRODITE
See meanings and uses of HERMAPHRODITE!HERMAPHRODITE
HERMAPHRODITE
HERMAPHRODITE
HERMAPHRODITE
HERMAPHRODITE
HERMAPHRODITE
Acronyms & AI meanings
: Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
Sindh Coal Authority
International Colloquium on Graph Theory
Oil Spill Model
Jackson Bottom Experimental Wetland
Symptomsand Negative Symptoms
Java CML (Chemical Markup Language) Filter Library
: Weapon: Hand-Gun
True Departures
Ottawa YMCA/YWCA Olympians
HERMAPHRODITE
HERMAPHRODITE
HERMAPHRODITE
n. pl.
An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis.
a.
Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; di/cious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di/cious.
a.
Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.
a.
Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.
a.
Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to dioecious.
a.
Including, or being of, both sexes; as, an hermaphrodite animal or flower.
n. pl.
An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cercaria.
n.
In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless.
a.
Belonging to the Polygamia; bearing both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.
a.
Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.
a.
Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.
a.
Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.
n. pl.
A Linnaean class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.
n.
An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.
n.
An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the parts of generation of both sexes, as when a flower contains both the stamens and pistil within the same calyx, or on the same receptacle. In some cases reproduction may take place without the union of the distinct individuals. In the animal kingdom true hermaphrodites are found only among the invertebrates. See Illust. in Appendix, under Helminths.
a. & n.
Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
a.
Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.
n.
A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.
n. pl.
A Linnaean class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.
n.
An hermaphrodite.
HERMAPHRODITE
HERMAPHRODITE