dichogamous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having male and female reproductive organs that mature at different times, reducing self-fertilization in a hermaphroditic organism

   The dichogamous flowers released pollen before their stigmas became receptive.

From dichogamy + -ous. Dichogamy combines Greek dikha ("in two, apart") with gamos ("marriage"). The term describes temporal separation of sexual function: protandry when the male phase comes first and protogyny when the female phase does.

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