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| | Hermaphrodite - definition of Hermaphrodite in Encyclopedia |
 | | Gonadal dysgenesis, a type of intersexuality formerly known as "True Hermaphroditism", occurs in about one percent of mammals (including humans), but it is extremely rare for both sets of sexual organs to be functional, usually neither set is functional. | | | However, this latter condition constitutes monoecy in plants, and is especially common to the conifers, while occurring in only about 7% of angiosperm species (Molnar, 2004). | | | Sequential hermaphrodite: The organism is born as one sex and later changes into the other sex. |
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| | hermaphrodite - Columbia Encyclopedia article about hermaphrodite |
| | Many hermaphrodites are protandrous or protogynous, i.e., gametes of the two sexes are produced in the same organism, sometimes in the same gonad, but at different times; in such organisms (e.g., the oyster and the sage plant) self-fertilization is impossible. | | | Many lower animals, especially immobile species, are hermaphroditic; in some, such as earthworms, two animals copulate and fertilize each other. | | | But still there are many hermaphrodite animals which certainly do not habitually pair, and a vast majority of plants are hermaphrodites. |
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| | Dictionary.com/hermaphrodite |
| | adj : of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs [syn: hermaphroditic] n : one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made [syn: intersex, gynandromorph, androgyne, epicine, epicine person] |
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