Crossword-Solution: UNISEXUAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Unisexual | a. | Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; di/cious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di/cious. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEZCAE
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eruption
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Sentences with UNISEXUAL (5)
These different forms of flowers were regarded as merely a case of variation, until Darwin showed "that these heterostyled plants are adapted for reciprocal fertilisation; so that the two or three forms, though all are hermaphrodites, are related to one another almost like the males and females of ordinary unisexual animals." ("Forms of Flowers" (1st edition), page 2.) We have here an example of hermaphrodite flowers which are sexually different.
But if, in fact, all hermaphrodites do occasionally intercross, the difference between them and unisexual species is, as far as function is concerned, very small.
Hooker to the effect that "the rule does not hold in Australia," i.e., that trees are not more generally unisexual than other plants.
This occurs in the genus Acropera, two species of which you assume to be unisexual, and so far as known represented by male individuals only.
Here there is not, as in the Catasetum, any external change visible in the respective unisexual and bisexual flowers.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1974).