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PRONUNCIATION OF PROTOGYNY

protogyny  [prəʊˈtɒdʒɪnɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROTOGYNY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Protogyny is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROTOGYNY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

protogyny

Sequential hermaphroditism

Sequential hermaphroditism is a type of hermaphroditism that occurs in many fish, gastropoda and plants. Sequential hermaphroditism occurs when the individual changes sex at some point in their life. They can change from a male to female, or from female to male or from female to hermaphrodite. Those that change gonadal sex can have both female and male germ cells in the gonads or can change from one complete gonadal type to the other during their last life stage. Individual flowers are also called sequentially hermaphrodite, although the plant as a whole may have functionally male and functionally female flowers open at the same time.

Definition of protogyny in the English dictionary

The definition of protogyny in the dictionary is the quality of being protogynous.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROTOGYNY


androgyny
ænˈdrɒdʒɪnɪ
autogeny
ɔːˈtɒdʒɪnɪ
dynamogeny
ˌdaɪnəˈmɒdʒɪnɪ
ectogeny
ɛkˈtɒdʒɪnɪ
epirogeny
ˌɛpaɪˈrɒdʒɪnɪ
ethnogeny
ɛθˈnɒdʒɪnɪ
gametogeny
ˌɡæmɪˈtɒdʒɪnɪ
homogeny
hɒˈmɒdʒɪnɪ
isogeny
aɪˈsɒdʒɪnɪ
metallogeny
ˌmetəˈlɒdʒɪnɪ
misogyny
mɪˈsɒdʒɪnɪ
orogeny
ɒˈrɒdʒɪnɪ
pathogeny
pəˈθɒdʒɪnɪ
photogeny
fəˈtɒdʒɪnɪ
phylogeny
faɪˈlɒdʒɪnɪ
progeny
ˈprɒdʒɪnɪ
proterogyny
ˌprəʊtəˈrɒdʒɪnɪ
spermatogeny
ˌspɜːməˈtɒdʒɪnɪ
teratogeny
ˌtɛrəˈtɒdʒɪnɪ
thaumatogeny
ˌθɔːməˈtɒdʒɪnɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROTOGYNY

protocolise
protocolist
protocolize
protoctist
protoderm
protogalaxies
protogalaxy
protogenic
protogine
protogynous
protohistorian
protohistoric
protohistory
protohuman
protolanguage
protolithic
protomartyr
protomorphic
proton
proton microscope

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROTOGYNY

Anthony
any
company
ebony
epigyny
funny
Germany
gyny
hologyny
horny
hypogyny
johnny
many
monogyny
perigyny
philogyny
polygyny
skinny
sunny
tiny

Synonyms and antonyms of protogyny in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «protogyny» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROTOGYNY

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The translations of protogyny from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «protogyny» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

protogyny
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

protoginia
570 millions of speakers

English

protogyny
510 millions of speakers

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protogyny
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تبكير الأنوثة
280 millions of speakers

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protogyny
278 millions of speakers

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protogyny
270 millions of speakers

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protogyny
260 millions of speakers

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protogynie
220 millions of speakers

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Protogyny
190 millions of speakers

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protogyny
180 millions of speakers

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protogyny
130 millions of speakers

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protogyny
85 millions of speakers

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Protogyny
85 millions of speakers
vi

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protogyny
80 millions of speakers

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protogyny
75 millions of speakers

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प्रोटोझी
75 millions of speakers

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protogyny
70 millions of speakers

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protogyny
65 millions of speakers

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protogyny
50 millions of speakers

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protogyny
40 millions of speakers

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protogyny
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πρωτογυνία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

protogyny
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

protogyny
10 millions of speakers
no

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protogyny
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of protogyny

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTOGYNY»

The term «protogyny» is used very little and occupies the 182.912 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTOGYNY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «protogyny» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «protogyny» 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 protogyny

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROTOGYNY»

Discover the use of protogyny in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to protogyny and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
If protandry is regarded as the normal condition, because it is the most common, protogyny may be thought of as delayed development of the staminate flowers, in which case the time of exposure of the silks would better be used as the date of ...
‎1905
2
The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests: A Plant and ...
PROTOGYNY AND PROTANDRY: THE COURTEOUS SEGREGATION OF SEXUAL FUNCTION Dioecy is about separation in space. The seemingly arcane terms 'protogyny' and 'protandry' are used to describe the temporal separation of  ...
Geoff Williams, Paul Adam, 2010
3
An Evolutionary Basis for Pollination Ecology
S. C. Willemstein. entomogamous Angiospermae protogyny may be original. Because of the arrangement of the microsporangiate and megasporangiate reproductive structures and possible sterile appendages, the combination of protandry, ...
S. C. Willemstein, 1987
4
Pollination Biology
A simpler explanation than either of these is that selection for dichogamy is more likely to lead to protandry than protogyny, because protandry merely represents the normal pattern of centripetal maturation within the flower. Protogyny, on the ...
Leslie Real, 1983
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Developing Drought and Low N-tolerant Maize: Proceedings of ...
Because this delay in silk emergence, rather than loss of pollen availability, pollen viability, or silk receptivity generally limits kernel set, selection for genotypes which exsert silks in advance of pollen shed (protogyny) should be beneficial.
‎1996
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New Zealand Journal of Zoology
The size advantage model is not applicable to hermaphroditism sensu stricto as defined here, but rather to protandry and protogyny. The size advantage arguments are essentially concerned with the idea that particular gender roles are most ...
7
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
This correlation of complexity and mental power probably explains why, of all groups with a large number of sequential hermaphrodites, only vertebrates have evolved protogyny as a more common pattern than protandry. When we look at the ...
Stephen Jay Gould, 2010
8
Plant Systematics
Figure 13.3 A,B. Protandry in Encelia californica (Asteraceae). A. Style is elongating through anther tube, pushing pollen outward. B. Style has finished elongating, and style branches have unfolded. C. Protogyny in Suaeda ( Chenopodiaceae).
Michael G. Simpson, 2010
9
Some Mathematical Questions in Biology--sex Allocation and ...
The conditions favoring protogyny, or sequential hermaphroditism in which individuals are initially female, are simply the reverse of those for protandry. Protogyny requires that larger than average males sire more offspring than a female of ...
Marc Mangel
10
Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management
This kind of explanation seems to fit the facts for a substantial number of marine animals, such as the gastropod Crepz'dula. SeealsoAsexuAL REPRODUCTION; POLLINA~ TIoN; PROTOGYNY. [M.T.G.] protective proteins A generic term for ...
‎2009

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROTOGYNY»

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Male, female, or both? When it comes to sex, fishes do it all!
A change from female to male is called protogyny (from the Greek “proto”=“first” and “gyno”=“female”), and a change from male to female is called protandry ... «Deep-Sea News, Oct 14»
2
Baby born with female, male sex organs
... an organism is born as a male, and then changes sex to a female; and Protogyny: Where the organism is born as a female, and then changes sex to a male. «Daily Sun, Jul 14»
3
The sheepshead fish has human teeth, but it's okay because it won't …
While other members of the Sparidae family are trying out various forms of hermaphroditism, including changing from female to male (protogyny), doing the ... «Scientific American, Mar 13»
4
繁衍后代保证生存令动物学会变性
有些物种天生是雄性,后来转化为雌性,称为雄性先熟(protandry),而雌性先熟(protogyny)指的就是由雌性转变为雄性。海葵鱼,或者说小丑鱼,就是最显著的邻接 ... «网易, Jun 11»
5
How to: archive and back up photos
... hypophyge ideality unattributed naloxones outray enteroid inured protogyny nonrecision individuals upbinds unmuffling subchronical sleekly oroheliograph ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»
6
Growing Taste for Reef Fish Sends Their Numbers Sinking
... males to compensate for population imbalances, becoming “secondary males” in a process called protogyny. But groupers take five years to mature, and most ... «New York Times, Jan 09»

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