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unisexual

[ yoo-nuh-sek-shoo-uhl ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to one sex only.
  2. having only male or female organs in one individual, as an animal or a flower.


unisexual

/ ˌːɪˈɛʊə /

adjective

  1. of or relating to one sex only
  2. (of some organisms) having either male or female reproductive organs but not both
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

unisexual

/ ̅̅′nĭ-ĕ̅̅-ə /

  1. Having the sex organs of only one sex; not hermaphroditic. Used of organisms.
  2. Having stamens and pistils in separate flowers borne on the same plant; diclinous. Used of flowers.
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Derived Forms

  • ˌܲԾˌˈٲ, noun
  • ˌܲԾˈܲ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • n·u·i·ٲ noun
  • n·u·· adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of unisexual1

First recorded in 1795–1805; uni- + sexual
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Example Sentences

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Sun and Duke mycologist Joseph Heitman have described unisexual reproduction in detail in the single-celled fungus Cryptococcus, and researchers in Germany recently documented it in an edible species.

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A key limitation of this study, both Greenwald and Neiman point out, is that the researchers didn't compare the regeneration rates of the unisexual salamanders with those of which they share a genome.

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These include unisexual whiptail lizards and deadbeat cassowary moms, which abandon hatchlings to Dad’s care.

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Several Ambystoma species are unisexual – that is, they consist only of parthenogenetic females.

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Spikelets of a single perfect or unisexual or rudimentary flower, in jointed spikes, in pairs at each joint, mostly imbedded in the thick rhachis.

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