A Linn\'91an class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.
A Linn\'91an class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.
Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.
Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly.
In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless.
An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.
Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.
Belonging to the Polygamia; bearing both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.
So also in case of hermaphrodite animals, where the fertilization is involuntary; many aquatic species are found together in the same locality, and the water is filled with sperm-cells of many different species.
The inertia of Matter is due to the hermaphrodite state; its contrary Sex-impulses interlocking and nullifying one another.
An hermaphrodite brig is square-rigged at her foremast; but has no top, and only fore-and-aft sails at her main mast.
An hermaphrodite brig has a brig's foremast and a schooner's mainmast.
That it did so, however, cannot be doubted, and the proofs will appear as we proceed; likewise that it sometimes symbolized the great hermaphrodite first principle, the Supreme Unity of the Greeks and Egyptians.
Prosobranchiate parasitic in the body cavity of Synapta, which in the adult state is reduced to little more than an hermaphrodite generative sack, deserves a short description.
In the hermaphrodite forms both ova and spermatozoa are produced in the same pouches (fig.
On hermaphrodite and fissiparous species of tubicolar Annelidae (Protula).
The St. Sebastian andHermaphrodite are of stupendous art.
I will merely recall the fact that many plants, though hermaphrodite in structure, are unisexual in function;--such as those called by C.
But we should bear in mind that the structure of all hermaphrodite animals, as far as I can learn, permits and frequently necessitates a cross with a distinct individual.
But it may be asked, can free crossing occur with hermaphrodite animals and plants?
With hermaphrodite plants we incessantly meet with elaborate and perfect contrivances for this same end.
There are, however, many hermaphrodite plants which are not in any way specially constructed to favour intercrossing, but which nevertheless commingle almost as freely as animals with separated sexes.
In alchemy we have the symbol REBIS, the hermaphrodite with the two heads.
The hermaphroditestands on a dragon that lies on a globe.
Even among hermaphrodite slugs we find very definite evidence of the advance of love; and in certain species an elaborate process of courtship, taking the form of slow and beautiful movements, precedes the act of reproduction.
Other animals are hermaphrodite in their young stages, though the sexes are separate in adult life, as, for example, tadpoles, where the bisexuality of youth sometimes linger into adult life.
We have noticed the many instances of tiny complemental males, in connection with hermaphrodite forms, which, as Darwin states, must have arisen from the advantage ensuring cross-fertilisation in the females who harbour them.
Jonson probably calls Shakspere an hermaphrodite because, having a wife, he cultivated an intimate friendship at the same time with William Herbert, the later Earl of Pembroke.
These same worms, proceeding from an hermaphrodite parent, or from parthogenetic females, live at liberty, and not parasitically in damp earth or in a decomposed body, and differ from their parents in size as well as in sexual organs.
We know some which are hermaphrodite in the rectum or in damp earth, and whose young ones, having the sexes separate, live as parasites in the lungs.
We should be correct in supposing that of these two hermaphrodite worms one acts rather as a female, the other as a male.
As a work of art, the hermaphrodite is the more important.
These hermaphrodite insects I suspect to be incapable of impregnating themselves for reasons mentioned in Zoonomia, Sect.
Poupart, who thinks, that the number ofhermaphrodite animals exceeds that of those which are divided into sexes; Mém.
Sprengel,[273] indeed, understood that thehermaphrodite structure of flowers by no means necessarily leads to self-fertilisation.
Cross-fertilisation of hermaphrodite flowers, first ideas of the, 300.
Heterostyled plants are comparable to hermaphrodite animals, such as snails, which require the concourse of two individuals, although each possesses both the sexual elements.
Hermaphrodite flowers, first idea of cross-fertilisation of, 300.
NO terrestrial animal in which semen is liquid is hermaphrodite except with mutual copulation; in terrestrial plants in which the semen is dry there are many hermaphrodites.
Myanthus barbatus is the hermaphrodite form of same species.
Catasetum tridentatum, Monacanthus viridis and Myanthus barbatus occurring on a single plant, but it remained for Darwin to make out that they are the male, female and hermaphrodite forms of a single species.
Mr. Scott has lately observed the rarer case of female flowers on a true male panicle, and likewisehermaphrodite flowers.
Starting from a male Maize plant with a fasciated inflorescence, on which a proportion of the flowers had become male, a new race was bred in which hermaphrodite flowers were frequently produced.
We have here an example ofhermaphrodite flowers which are sexually different.
Sprengel that "very many flowers have the sexes separate and probably at least as many hermaphrodite flowers are dichogamous; it would thus appear that Nature was unwilling that any flower should be fertilised by its own pollen.
Jupiter was himself sometimes represented as being female; and the word hermaphrodite is in itself a union between Hermes and Aphrodite, the male and female creative powers.
Ymer and Omoroca are each the same as that hermaphrodite Jupiter of the Orphic theology.
It had not occurred to me that even a hermaphroditeplant might be in this condition.
This is lord I O, the supreme, the hermaphrodite god or idol of the pagans.
The three links are the symbol of the hermaphrodite godhead.
The first name of this hermaphrodite god in the picture writing was IO.
The first part of that hermaphrodite god is Ya, the male, and the last part is Heva, the female, or serpent, or Devil.
And the hermaphrodite god of evil is represented by the king of spades and his wife, Lilith, the queen of clubs.
It was claimed by Madam Blavatsky and Elephas Levi that the hermaphrodite Goat of Mendes, or Baphomet, was anciently an object of worship and adoration by the mystic societies and at the Witches’ Sabbath.
It was called the Monstrance because it contained the hermaphrodite monster, now or formerly worshipped by the devotees of all religions.
In Nature, even with hermaphrodite plants, there is a vast amount of cross-fertilization among various individuals of the same species.
Who can suppose that such a costly process as this, and that all the exquisite arrangements for cross-fertilization in hermaphrodite plants, do not subserve some most important purpose?
Nature to prevent close breeding--arrangements which are particularly prominent in plants, the greater number of which bear hermaphrodite blossoms.
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