Cosexualとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

cosexual (not comparable)

1. (botany) Producing both pollen and ovules.
2. (biology) Being able to reproduce as both female and male.
   • 1982, David Policansky, “Sex change in plants and animals”, in Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, volume 13, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 471–495:

     The platyctenid Coeloplana gonoctena is protandrous (151) and probably is a true sex changer. Females are larger than males and are found only at the end of summer, while males are found all year. It is ectocommensal on an anthozoan. Other members of the genus are cosexual.

同意語

• simultaneous hermaphrodite

等位語

• dichogamous

名詞

cosexual (plural cosexuals)

1. A cosexual organism.
   • 1982, David Policansky, “Sex change in plants and animals”, in Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, volume 13, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 471–495:

     First, many plants that appear to change sex are really sequential or alternating cosexuals; the oil palm, Elaeis guineensis (220), and com, Zea mays (173), are examples […]

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