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Hermaphroditic
Hermaphroditic meaning
Of or pertaining to hermaphrodism; being a hermaphrodite. | Possessing the reproductive organs of both sexes. | Relating to the metaphysical integration of two complementary principles, often framed as masculine and feminine, active and receptive, solar and lunar, force and form, etc.
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About 500 greenish-yellow flowers occur in each hermaphroditic panicle.
Although most Rubiaceae species are hermaphroditic, outbreeding is promoted through proterandry and spatial isolation of the reproductive organs.
Autogamy which is also known as self-fertilisation, occurs in such hermaphroditic organisms as plants and flatworms; therein, two gametes from one individual fuse.
Flowers are usually hermaphroditic, producing both male and female gametes.
Flowers Flowers of plants in the rose family are generally described as "showy". citation They are actinomorphic (i.e. radially symmetrical) and almost always hermaphroditic.
It is sometimes also used to describe reproduction modes in hermaphroditic species which can self-fertilize.
Over the course of its life, a panga will undergo periodic sex-changes with as much as 30% of the population being hermaphroditic at a time.
Pollinators may maintain a fidelity to either male or hermaphroditic flowers (trees), thus limiting pollination and fruit set under natural conditions where crossing between male and female flowers is required.
Rambutan trees can be male (producing only staminate flowers and, hence, produce no fruit), female (producing flowers that are only functionally female), or hermaphroditic (producing flowers that are female with a small percentage of male flowers).
Reproduction Most polychaetes have separate sexes, rather than being hermaphroditic.
The flowers are usually hermaphroditic — maize being an important exception—and anemophilous or wind-pollinated.