cosexual
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Etymology
Adjective
cosexual (not comparable)
- (botany) Producing both pollen and ovules
- (biology) Being able to reproduce as both female and male[1][2][3]
- "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."[1]
Synonyms
- simultaneous hermaphrodite
Coordinate terms
Noun
cosexual (plural cosexuals)
- Such an organism
- 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[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Policansky, David. "Sex change in plants and animals." Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 13, no. 1 (1982): 471-495.
- ^ Charlesworth, B. (1991). The evolution of sex chromosomes. Science, 251(4997), 1030-1033.
- ^ Davies, Ronald W., and R. N. Singhal. "Cosexuality in the leech, Nephelopsis obscura (Erpobdellidae)." International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 13, no. 1 (1988): 55-64.