Dioecious: alternatives and connections

Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic.

A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate o…

Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of pl…

The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Fo…

A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals,…

The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partri…

A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones…

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female…

a cell containing an electrolyte in which an applied voltage causes a reaction to occur that would not occur otherwise (such as the br…

Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, t…

The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact wi…

In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs.

An individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes; an animal or plant having the…

The union of the two sexes in the same individual, or the combination of some of their characteristics or organs in one individual.

Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individua…