Protandrous Definition

prō-tăndrəs
adjective
Of or relating to an organism, especially a plant, in which the male reproductive organs mature before the female reproductive organs.
American Heritage Medicine
Of or relating to the earlier arrival of males than of females at a breeding site.
Protandrous migration.
American Heritage

(biology) Exhibiting protandry.

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Protandrous Sentence Examples

  • While some of the species are bisexual, others are protandrous, self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.

  • It is probable that the flowers of Bennettites were normally hermaphrodite, and they may have been markedly protandrous.

  • The larger-flowered species of Geranium are markedly protandrous, the outer stamens, inner stamens and stigmas becoming.

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