单词 | gynandromorphic |
释义 | gynandromorphicadj. Zoology. Having both male and female characteristics; spec. designating an animal (most often an insect) in which male and female tissues are present as a genetic mosaic in the same individual, as shown by markings or other features; = gynandromorphous adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [adjective] > of sexual organs or reproduction > having male and female characteristics or gyandromorphic gynandromorphous1838 gynandromorphic1875 gynandromorph1909 1875 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 17 423 Mr. Samuel H. Scudder described the structure and transformations of Eumæus Atala, which, with a paper presented by Dr. A. S. Packard on Gynandromorphic Lepidoptera, will be published in the Memoirs. 1894 W. Bateson Materials Study Variation 68 Gynandromorphic insects, in which the characters of the whole or part of one side of the body, wings and antennæ, are male, while those of the other side are female. 1950 B. P. Sonnenblick in M. Demerec Biol. Drosophila ii. 90 A wide assortment of gynandromorphic patterns can result. 2011 D. Yamamoto Genetics Sexual Differentiation & Sexually Dimorphic Behaviors p. xi How are such insect-like gynandromorphic brains formed in birds if one postulates hormonal signaling as the sole mechanism operating in brain sex determination? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1875 |
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