Crossword-Solution: HETEROSTYLISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heterostylism | n. | The condition of being heterostyled. |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
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A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with HETEROSTYLISM (5)
The recent researches of Bateson and Gregory ("On the inheritance of Heterostylism in Primula"; "Proc.
This account was published before I had discovered the meaning of heterostylism, and the whole statement must have been fraudulent, or there was neglect in excluding insects so gross as to be scarcely credible.
The essential character of heterostyled plants.--Summary of the differences in fertility between legitimately and illegitimately fertilised plants.--Diameter of the pollen-grains, size of anthers and structure of stigma in the different forms.--Affinities of the genera which include heterostyled species.--Nature of the advantages derived from heterostylism.--The means by which plants became heterostyled.--Transmission of form.--Equal-styled varieties of heterostyled plants.--Final remarks.
But there is no evidence that two sets of individuals exist, which differ slightly in function and are adapted for reciprocal fertilisation; and this is the essence of heterostylism.
Gartner knew nothing about heterostylism; and his complete failure may perhaps be accounted for by his having crossed together the same forms of the cowslip and primrose; for such crosses would have been of an illegitimate as well as of a hybrid nature, and this would have increased their sterility.