hermaphroditic

How To Use hermaphroditic In A Sentence

• In a hermaphroditic plant, flowers are first staminate, then pistillate, and the sexual stages do not overlap within the flower.
• Clams reproduce sexually and like most mollusks they are hermaphroditic, although some soft shelled clams are dioecious, meaning they have distinct genders. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
• It is a wind-pollinated species, with hermaphroditic protandrous flowers (the first two days as male and three last days as female).
• Leymus chinensis flowers are hermaphroditic and arranged in compound spikes.
• He's also over 30 and hermaphroditic which is so fucking rare I feel the need to mention it. Naked Intent: What Lies Beneath
• There are so many entities in this passage that seem to be mysteriously conjoined in some kind of hermaphroditic unity.
• Thomas Jefferson publicly called Adams a "hideous hermaphroditical character. Poll: Bitterness Of Pennsylvania Primary Could Spell Trouble For Dems In November
• While growing up at the aquarium, he turned into a male, a common phenomenon among many fish species known as 'protogynous hermaphroditic.' A fish story (or two)
• In assorted prose fragments on natural history and the Linnaean system he composed between 1823 and 1825, Clare compares Linnaean claims about female flowers to what he sees in plants and trees and concludes that some trees are "hermaphroditic," and thus do not propagate exclusively by way of a female reproductive organ (Clare Natural History 101-2, 108). Romantic Interiority and Cultural Objects
• Hermaphroditic flowers develop from leaf axils and have eight stamens (with pollen connected by viscin threads), and a cross-shaped stigma.