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Meaning of "zygomorphy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ZYGOMORPHY

zygomorphy  [ˈzaɪɡəʊˌmɔːfɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ZYGOMORPHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Zygomorphy 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ZYGOMORPHY


actinomorphy
ˈæktɪnəʊˌmɔːfɪ
ectomorphy
ˈɛktəʊˌmɔːfɪ
enantiomorphy
ɛnˈæntɪəˌmɔːfɪ
endomorphy
ˈɛndəʊˌmɔːfɪ
gynandromorphy
dʒɪˈnændrəʊˌmɔːfɪ
hemimorphy
ˈhɛmɪˌmɔːfɪ
heteromorphy
ˌhetərəʊˈmɔːfɪ
homeomorphy
ˈhɒmɪəʊˌmɔːfɪ
homoeomorphy
ˈhɒmɪəʊˌmɔːfɪ
homomorphy
ˈhəʊməʊˌmɔːfɪ
mesomorphy
ˈmɛsəʊˌmɔːfɪ
Morphy
ˈmɔːfɪ
pleomorphy
ˈpliːəˌmɔːfɪ
wharfie
ˈwɔːfɪ
zoomorphy
ˈzəʊəˌmɔːfɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ZYGOMORPHY

zygodont
zygoma
zygomata
zygomatic
zygomatic arch
zygomatic bone
zygomatic process
zygomorphic
zygomorphism
zygomorphous
zygomycete
zygomycetous
zygon
zygophyllaceous
zygophyte
zygopleural
zygosis
zygosity
zygosphene
zygospore

WORDS THAT END LIKE ZYGOMORPHY

autobiography
bibliography
biography
calligraphy
choreography
chromatography
cinematography
discography
filmography
furphy
geography
historiography
philosophy
photography
pornography
tomography
topography
trophy
typography
videography

Synonyms and antonyms of zygomorphy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «zygomorphy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ZYGOMORPHY

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Translator English - Chinese

zygomorphy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

zygomorphy
570 millions of speakers

English

zygomorphy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

zygomorphy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

zygomorphy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

zygomorphy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

zigomorfia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

zygomorphy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

zygomorphie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Zygomorphy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zygomorphy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

zygomorphy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

zygomorphy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Zygomorphy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

zygomorphy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

zygomorphy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झीगोमोर्फि
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zygomorphy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

zygomorphy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zygomorphy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

zygomorphy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zygomorphy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

zygomorphy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

zygomorphy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

zygomorphy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

zygomorphy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of zygomorphy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ZYGOMORPHY»

The term «zygomorphy» is barely ever used and occupies the 200.904 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ZYGOMORPHY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ZYGOMORPHY»

Discover the use of zygomorphy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to zygomorphy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Issues in Life Sciences—Botany and Plant Biology Research: ...
Institute of Botany, Beijing: Evolution of D0uble Positive Autoregulatory Feedback Loops in CYCLOIDEA2 Clade Genes Is Associated with the Origin of Floral Zygomorphy By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly ...
‎2013
2
Understanding Flowers and Flowering Second Edition
Zygomorphy has evolved approximately 38 times from actinomorphy across the angiosperm phylogeny, and is a hallmark of some of the most species-rich plant groups (Endress 2001). Work on the evolutionary lability of floral symmetry has ...
Beverley Glover, 2014
3
Issues in General Science and Scientific Theory and Method: ...
origin. and. maintenance. of. zygomorphy. in. a. plant-pollinator. mutualism. “The evolution of. oral zygomorphy is an important innovation in flowering plants and is thought to arise principally from specialization on various insect pollinators.
‎2012
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Plant Systematics
Zygomorphy has evolved repeatedly in many groups, typically as a means of more efficiently transferring pollen to an animal (usually insect) pollinator. Zygomorphy is typically correlated with a more horizontal floral orientation, and there are ...
Michael George Simpson, 2006
5
Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Relationships
Associations between zygomorphy and tropicality were not explored previously but, if present, could potentially produce the pattern of increased diversification in zygomorphic lineages in the tropics. We therefore investigate them further here ...
Sébastien Patiny, 2011
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The Ferns (Filicales): Volume 3, The Leptosporangiate Ferns: ...
{a) ZYGOMORPHY OF THE SORUS For the first time in the upward sequence of Ferns with superficial sori the sorus in Peranema departs definitely from that radial construction which characterises all the earlier types where sporangia are  ...
F. O. Bower, 2010
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The Ferns (Filicales)
(a) ZYGOMORPHY OF THE SORUS For the first time in the upward sequence of Ferns with superficial sori the sorus in Peranema departs definitely from that radial construction which characterises all the earlier types where sporangia are  ...
8
Reproductive Physiology in Plants
Zygomorphy is believed to be ancestral in Lamiales s.l. [2,19,20]. Most zygomorphic groups in Lamiales s.l. have a pentamerous perianth with four stamens plus a dorsal staminode and two carpels as in A.majus. However, there is a great ...
Philip Stewart, Sabine Globig, 2011
9
Contemporary problems in plant anatomy
Ill. TRANSITION TO ZYGOMORPHIC SYMMETRY The shift from radial symmetry to zygomorphy can occur at many different stages in floral ontogeny, depending on the taxon. In Coleus blumei (illustrated in Troughton and Sampson, 1973) the  ...
Richard White, 1984
10
Developmental Genetics and Plant Evolution
The ancestral angiosperm flowers are thought to have been actinomorphic ( Crane et al., 1995; Friis et al., 1999), zygomorphy being a derived condition associated with the evolution of specialised pollinators (Crepet, 1996; Dilcher, 2000).
Quentin C.B. Cronk, Richard M. Bateman, Julie A. Hawkins, 2002

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ZYGOMORPHY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term zygomorphy is used in the context of the following news items.
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王印政组Plant Cell解析挑战性问题
... of Floral Zygomorphy”的文章,以烟叶苣苔为材料,解析了被子植物两侧对称花起源研究中一个极具挑战性的问题,相关成果公布在国际著名学术期刊The Plant Cell ... «生物通, Jun 12»
2
How did bilaterally symmetric flowers evolve from radially symmetric …
... Francisco Perfectti, and Juan Pedro M. Camacho, "Natural selection on Erysimum mediohispanicum flower shape: insights into the evolution of zygomorphy," ... «EurekAlert, Oct 06»

REFERENCE
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