semihypogynous

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adjective

Having a partially attached superior ovary.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. biologyHaving a partially attached superior ovary.

    Pythiopsis cymosa. Oogonium with a single, aplerotic, subeccentric oospore. Note the mucilage layer around the oogonium. Semihypogynous antheridium with fertilization tube.

    1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 134

Origin

From semi- + hypogynous.

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