单词 | heterogonous |
释义 | heterogonousadj. 1. Botany. Having incongruous reproductive organs; applied by Asa Gray to flowers in which cross-fertilization is secured by the stamens and pistils being dimorphic or trimorphic. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > having or relating to parts > of or having stamens or pistils > characterized by relative length homomorphous1854 thrum-eyed1861 trimorphic1866 dimorphic1870 homomorphic1873 heteromorphic1874 heterostyled1876 heterogone1877 heterogonous1877 homogone1877 homogonous1877 homostyled1877 homostylic1883 homostylous1886 heterostylous1887 1877 Gray in Amer. Jrnl. Sc. 3rd Ser. XIII. 82 I propose the..term of heterogone (or heterogonous) for these flowers. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §4. 225 They may be classed into those without and those with dimorphism of stamens and pistils, or, in other words, those with Homogonous and those with Heterogonous flowers. 1880 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) i. 236 Heterogonous trimorphism is known in certain species..; and the complication may have certain conceivable advantages over dimorphism. 2. Biology. Exhibiting irregular reproduction; producing offspring dissimilar to the parent. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > production unlike parents xenogenetic1870 heterogonous1883 xenogeneic1961 1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Digenesis, heterogonous, the form of digenesis in which the buds produce animals differing in appearance from their progenitors. 1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Heterogonous, being of, or produced by, irregular generation. Derivatives heteˈrogonism n. the condition of being heterogonous (in either sense). ΚΠ 1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Heterogonism, the production of dissimilar offspring from similar parentage, as in Gymnoblasti where dissimilar gonosomes may arise from similar trophosomes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1877 |
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