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Definition of unisexual in English: unisexualadjective juːnɪˈsɛkʃʊəlˌjunəˈsɛkʃ(əw)əl 1(of an organism) either male or female; not hermaphrodite. (生物)单性的,雌雄异体的 Example sentencesExamples - As is the condition in other unisexual vertebrates, the silver crucian carp probably has a hybridization origin.
- Various species may be unisexual, hermaphroditic, or have separate sexes.
- When H. frenatus arrives on an island, the population of the unisexual species plummets.
- This means that the unisexual females are actually parasitizing bisexual males of these other species.
- Both individuals and gametes were unisexual, and self-fertilization was allowed.
- 1.1Botany (of a flower) having either stamens or pistils but not both.
〔植〕(花)单性的 Example sentencesExamples - Sexually the species are structurally gynodioecious, but there is a strong tendency towards dioecism with apparently bisexual flowers often being functionally unisexual.
- The genus has reduced unisexual flowers grouped into characteristic pseudanthia called cyathia.
- Plants are characterized as having unisexual flowers and dichotomously forked leaves arranged in crowded whorls.
- They have unisexual flowers, are wind-pollinated, and apparently have a very short and inconspicuous flowering time so that the presence of flowers is easily overlooked.
- The genera of Atripliceae, as the tribe is traditionally defined, have flowers that are usually unisexual and enclosed by well-developed bracteoles.
2Biology Involving or repesenting only one sex. a single parthenogenetic female reaching a favourable new habitat can start a new unisexual population
Derivativesnoun juːnɪsɛkʃʊˈalɪti Not all species have been fully investigated, but Millener has estimated that about 25% exhibit unisexuality in New Zealand compared with only 8% in the British flora. Example sentencesExamples - It is likely that he achieved just the effect he was after here, as audiences are forced to confront in full force not homosexuality but unisexuality.
- There are also ‘alternative mating systems,’ which include alternative male strategies, hermaphroditism, and unisexuality.
- Rather than being a viewpoint in support of homosexuality, it's more like an argument favoring an androgynous unisexuality that even most gender benders would find unreflective of their lives.
- A major emphasis has been to evaluate the functional significance of interspecific hybridization, unisexuality and polyploidy in the evolutionary biology of these unusual fish.
adverb Thus, whereas the parental species reproduce sexually, the hybrid reproduces unisexually due to the result of meiotic drive, but still depends on a sexual hang-up. Example sentencesExamples - No difference in granuloma formation between naive and P. berghei-immunized animals and between unisexually and bisexually S. mansoni-infected mice was observed.
- With the first guy I mean it unisexually, and the second… femalely.
- He has a feminine palette, but the shirt was sold unisexually.
- But scientists at Duke's Howard Hughes Medical Institute discovered that the fungus reproduces both unisexually and by releasing reproductive cells in a process called ‘fruiting’ that include half the number of chromosomes needed for reproduction, similar to the way a human egg or sperm has half the chromosomes needed for reproduction.
Rhymesasexual, bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual, psychosexual, sexual, transsexual Definition of unisexual in US English: unisexualadjectiveˌyo͞onəˈsekSH(əw)əlˌjunəˈsɛkʃ(əw)əl 1(of an organism) either male or female; not hermaphrodite. (生物)单性的,雌雄异体的 Example sentencesExamples - Both individuals and gametes were unisexual, and self-fertilization was allowed.
- When H. frenatus arrives on an island, the population of the unisexual species plummets.
- As is the condition in other unisexual vertebrates, the silver crucian carp probably has a hybridization origin.
- Various species may be unisexual, hermaphroditic, or have separate sexes.
- This means that the unisexual females are actually parasitizing bisexual males of these other species.
- 1.1Botany (of a flower) having either stamens or pistils but not both.
〔植〕(花)单性的 Example sentencesExamples - Plants are characterized as having unisexual flowers and dichotomously forked leaves arranged in crowded whorls.
- The genus has reduced unisexual flowers grouped into characteristic pseudanthia called cyathia.
- Sexually the species are structurally gynodioecious, but there is a strong tendency towards dioecism with apparently bisexual flowers often being functionally unisexual.
- The genera of Atripliceae, as the tribe is traditionally defined, have flowers that are usually unisexual and enclosed by well-developed bracteoles.
- They have unisexual flowers, are wind-pollinated, and apparently have a very short and inconspicuous flowering time so that the presence of flowers is easily overlooked.
2Biology Involving or repesenting only one sex. a single parthenogenetic female reaching a favourable new habitat can start a new unisexual population |