hemigamous

English

Etymology

hemi- +‎ -gamous

Ancient Greek

Adjective

hemigamous (not comparable)

1. (botany) Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; said of grasses.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hemigamous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)