cosexual

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English

Etymology

From co- +‎ sexual.

Adjective

cosexual (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Producing both pollen and ovules.
  2. (biology) Being able to reproduce as both female and male.
    • 1982, David Policansky, “Sex change in plants and animals”, in Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, volume 13, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 471–495:
      The platyctenid Coeloplana gonoctena is protandrous (151) and probably is a true sex changer. Females are larger than males and are found only at the end of summer, while males are found all year. It is ectocommensal on an anthozoan. Other members of the genus are cosexual.

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Noun

cosexual (plural cosexuals)

  1. A cosexual organism.
    • 1982, David Policansky, “Sex change in plants and animals”, in Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, volume 13, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 471–495:
      First, many plants that appear to change sex are really sequential or alternating cosexuals; the oil palm, Elaeis guineensis (220), and com, Zea mays (173), are examples

References

  1. ^ Charlesworth, B. (1991). The evolution of sex chromosomes. Science, 251(4997), 1030-1033.
  2. ^ Davies, Ronald W., and R. N. Singhal. "Cosexuality in the leech, Nephelopsis obscura (Erpobdellidae)." International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 13, no. 1 (1988): 55-64.