Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun in botany, the maturation of the anthers and the discharge of the pollen in a hermaphrodite flower before the stigmas of that flower are receptive of pollen: an adaptation for cross-fertilization. Compare
proterogyny , and seedichogamy and heteracmy. - noun In zoology, development of male parts or maturation of male products in hermaphrodite animals before the development or maturation of those of the opposite sex.
- noun Also
protandry .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The condition of being proterandrous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The condition of being
proterandrous .
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