Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "androdioecious" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF ANDRODIOECIOUS

androdioecious  [ˌændrəʊdaɪˈiːʃəs] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANDRODIOECIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Androdioecious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ANDRODIOECIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Androdioecy

Androdioecy is a reproductive system characterized by the coexistence of males and hermaphrodites. Androdioecy is rare in comparison to the other major reproductive systems dioecy, hermaphroditism and gynodioecy. In animals, androdioecy has been considered an important stepping stone in the transition from dioecy to hermaphroditism, and vice versa.

Definition of androdioecious in the English dictionary

The definition of androdioecious in the dictionary is having hermaphrodite and male flowers on separate plants.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANDRODIOECIOUS


andromonoecious
ˌændrəʊmɒˈniːʃəs
autecious
ɔːˈtiːʃəs
autoecious
ɔːˈtiːʃəs
cautious
ˈkɔːʃəs
Confucius
kənˈfjuːʃəs
diecious
daɪˈiːʃəs
facetious
fəˈsiːʃəs
gynodioecious
ˌɡaɪnəʊdaɪˈiːʃəs
gynomonoecious
ˌɡaɪnəʊmɔːˈniːʃəs
heteroecious
ˌhɛtəˈriːʃəs
incautious
ɪnˈkɔːʃəs
monecious
mɒˈniːʃəs
parecious
pəˈriːʃəs
paroecious
pəˈriːʃəs
specious
ˈspiːʃəs
synecious
sɪˈniːʃəs
tertius
ˈtɜːʃəs
tortious
ˈtɔːʃəs
triecious
traɪˈiːʃəs
trioecious
traɪˈiːʃəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANDRODIOECIOUS

androcentric
androcentrism
androcephalous
Androcles
androclinia
androclinium
Androclus
androdioecism
androecia
androecial
androecium
androgen
androgenesis
androgenetic
androgenic
androgenous
androgyne
androgynophore
androgynous
androgyny

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANDRODIOECIOUS

atrocious
audacious
auspicious
bootylicious
conscious
delicious
efficacious
ferocious
gracious
luscious
malicious
precious
previous
self-conscious
spacious
subconscious
suspicious
tenacious
unconscious
vicious
voracious

Synonyms and antonyms of androdioecious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «androdioecious» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF ANDRODIOECIOUS

Find out the translation of androdioecious to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of androdioecious from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «androdioecious» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

androdioecious
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

androdioecious
570 millions of speakers

English

androdioecious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

androdioecious
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

androdioecious
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

androdioecious
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

androdioecious
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

androdioecious
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

androdioecious
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Androdioecious
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

androdioecious
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

androdioecious
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

androdioecious
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Androdioecious
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

androdioecious
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

androdioecious
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आणि निरर्थक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

androdioecious
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

androdioecious
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

androdioecious
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

androdioecious
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

androdioecious
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

androdioecious
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

androdioecious
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

androdioecious
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

androdioecious
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of androdioecious

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANDRODIOECIOUS»

The term «androdioecious» is barely ever used and occupies the 194.510 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Unused
9
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «androdioecious» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of androdioecious
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «androdioecious».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANDRODIOECIOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «androdioecious» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «androdioecious» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about androdioecious

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANDRODIOECIOUS»

Discover the use of androdioecious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to androdioecious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Major Evolutionary Transitions in Flowering Plant Reproduction
The solid line near Rabat indicates the point of transition between monoecious populations (to the south) and androdioecious populations (to the north). Two tetraploid populations were found within the area occupied principally by hexaploid ...
Spencer C. H. Barrett, 2008
2
Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences ...
(2010 JUN 8) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon: The evolution from females to hermaphrodites results in a sexual conflict over mating in androdioecious nematode worms and clam shrimp Investigators publish new ...
‎2012
3
Hermaphroditism: A Primer on the Biology, Ecology, and ...
2006), but, on the other hand, they probably had an androdioecious progenitor on some other occasions (Weeks et al. 2009). Pannell (2008, 2009) has emphasized a key potential difference between plants and invertebrate animals with ...
John C. Avise, Trudy H. Nicholson, 2013
4
Evolutionary Biology – Concepts, Biodiversity, ...
First, hermaphrodites from androdioecious species appear to be modified females, which lack the male reproductive structures needed to inseminate other individuals. Hence, these androdioecious species must have arisen from male/ female ...
Pierre Pontarotti, 2011
5
Gender and Sexual Dimorphism in Flowering Plants
Where reportedly androdioecious species have now been examined in terms of their function, almost invariably the so- called hermaphrodite morph has turned out to be functionally female (Charlesworth 1984). In many such cases, large ...
Monica A. Geber, Todd E. Dawson, Lynda F. Delph, 1999
6
Issues in Life Sciences—Botany and Plant Biology Research: ...
dimorphism in androdioecious plants. Here we investigate sexual dimorphism in an androdioecious population of the wind-pollinated herb Mercurialis annua by comparing the resource allocation strategies of males and hermaphrodites grown  ...
‎2013
7
Phytography as a Fine Art
3d. androdioecious. Separate hermaphrodite and male organs occur on two different individuals. Dryas octopetala. 3e. gynodioecious. Separate hermaphrodite and female organs occur on two different individuals. Salvinia pratensis; Knautia ...
Jan Willem Moll, Johannes Cornelis Schoute, 1934
8
The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals
... Hemichordata Chordata Urochordata Cephalochordata Myxinoidea Petromyzontiformes Chondrichthyes Actinopterygii Actiniata Dipnoi Tetrapoda Dioecious Dioecious Dioecious or (rarely) androdioecious Dioecious Yes in androdioecious ...
Janet Leonard, Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, 2010
9
The genetics of sex determination and the evolution of ...
CHAPTER 4 Conclusions and future directions Datisca glomerata is now one of a very small number of organisms that can unambiguously be considered both functionally and morphologically androdioecious. Although 15 species were listed ...
Diana E. Wolf, 2000
10
Androdioecy in white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa): ...
While some species were found only in hermaphroditic populations and others were found only in androdioecious populations, the majority of insect species were found in both population types. Few species were found in all six populations.
Carol L. Landry, 2005

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANDRODIOECIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term androdioecious is used in the context of the following news items.
1
From the age of the dinosaurs?
The hermaphrodites in androdioecious populations have sperm-producing lobes in their ovaries and they can both self-fertilise and mate with ... «Planet Earth, Dec 14»
2
This is why you don't have sex with other species
... of the species are dioecious and have males and females, while others are androdioecious and are made up of males and hermaphrodites, ... «The Week Magazine, Aug 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Androdioecious [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/androdioecious>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z