单词 | gynandrous |
释义 | gynandrousadj. 1. Botany. Having flowers in which the stamens and pistil are fused into a single column, as in orchids; (in early use) of or relating to the former Linnaean order Gynandria characterized by such flowers (now historical). Also: designating flowers having this structure; (of stamens) fused with or inserted into the pistil in this manner; (occasionally in broader sense) having both male and female parts combined (cf. androgynous adj. 2c). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > having or relating to parts > of or having stamens or pistils > having stamens and pistils united or gynandrous gynandrous1767 1767 J. Hill Veg. Syst. XII. 30 Some of the species are of the Hexandrous Class, some of the Gynandrous, &c. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 462 The rest of the Order are in no sense gynandrous. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 189 [Stylidieæ.] Nearly allied both to Campanulaceæ and Goodenoviæ, from both of which they are distinguished by their gynandrous stamens. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands p. xvii Aristolochieæ..Stamens 6–12, epigynous or gynandrous. 1894 Contrib. U.S. National Herbarium 2 348 Stamens only 1 or 2; flower irregular, gynandrous. 1909 J. A. A. Davis tr. P. Knuth Handbk. Flower Pollination III. 350 During this stage the stigma is receptive, but the six gynandrous anthers are still unripe. 2013 Amer. Jrnl. Life Sci. 1 161/1 Androeceum: stamens 5, gynandrous, syngenesious. 2. Biology. Having physical characteristics of both sexes, esp. with the female element primary or predominant; (Zoology) = gynandromorphic adj. Cf. androgynous adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [adjective] > hermaphrodite hermaphrodite1753 monoecious1826 gynandrous1852 monoic1857 protogynous1929 1852 Lancet 29 May 515/1 For to the simple coexistence in the same individual of some distinctive male, and some distinctive female organizations, nature has in the human subject limited that approach, so far at least as we know of; hence the appellation androganous [read androgynous] where the masculine, and gynandrous where the feminine type predominates. 1905 Science 21 Apr. 633/1 Boveri has suggested that the gynandrous condition may be due to the spermatozoon failing to unite with the egg nucleus, but subsequently pairing with one of the products of its first division. 1930 Surg. Clinics N. Amer. 10 1326 We..declare this child to be a girl... She is a pseudohermaphrodite of the gynandrous type. 2010 Austral. Entomologist 37 107 Elements of the Ornithoptera wing pattern defined by Haugum and Low (1978) are used to describe the gynandrous phenotype of individual specimens. 3. Originally: combining elements of masculinity and femininity, esp. (in early use) in a manner considered appropriate to women but deprecated in men. Later also: neither clearly male nor clearly female; of indeterminate or ambiguous sex. Cf. androgynous adj. 1a.Sometimes used in preference to androgynous to avoid giving primacy to the male component or to avoid association with mere appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > effeminate man womanisha1393 womanlike1440 feminatea1533 effeminate1549 womanlike1565 cockney1573 feminine1614 androgynous1628 muliebrious1652 petit maître1729 Miss Nancyish1855 gynaecomorphous1865 gynandrous1878 girly-girly1882 nancified1901 wimbly-wambly1929 tapette1930 queeny1936 female1940 poofed-up1964 pansy-ass1976 wussy1977 effete1981 1878 Catholic Progress May 130/1 An androgynous woman and a gynandrous man fall equally from their real and native dignity because they abandon the province assigned to them severally by God. a1892 Ld. Tennyson Notebk. in Poems (1969) 1424 Men should be androgynous and women gynandrous, but men should not be gynandrous nor women androgynous. 1984 Amer. Poetry Rev. May 24/2 On one side [of the coin] loomed a gynandrous head with classic features. 1987 M. Sjöö & B. Mor Great Cosmic Mother ii. 70 When our life energies are not divided against themselves..by cultural and religious stereotypes..when our energies are able to flow out freely to create the world—as symbolized by the self-sustaining power of the gynandrous Great Mother. 2004 Financial Times 19 Aug. 13/5 Hunter, still growing out the shaven head she adopted for Whistling Psyche, wears a man's suit and dominates the stage like a petite, gynandrous Godfather. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1767 |
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