heterostyled

[ het-er-uh-stahyld ]

adjective

1. (of a plant) having styles of different forms or lengths in the flowers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of heterostyled¹

First recorded in 1870–75; hetero- + -style ¹ + -ed ³

Example Sentences

As before remarked, no little discovery of mine ever gave me so much pleasure as the making out the meaning of heterostyled flowers.

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The nature of heterostyled plants may be illustrated in the primrose, one of the best known examples of the class.

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Heterostyled plants are comparable to hermaphrodite animals, such as snails, which require the concourse of two individuals, although each possesses both the sexual elements.

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The result of his work on heterostyled plants is of importance as showing that sterility is no test of specific distinctness, and that it depends on differentiation of the sexual elements which is independent of any racial difference.

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I imagine that it was his instinctive love of making out a difficulty which to a great extent kept him at work so patiently on the heterostyled plants.

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