zygomorphy

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noun

The quality of being zygomorphic.

Scrabble 33

Meanings

nounzygomorphy (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being zygomorphic.

    We here distinguish clade A from other clades based on the retention of a caulescent habit and moderate floral zygomorphy.

    2015 July 3, Zhi-Jing Qiu et al., “Origin and evolution of Petrocosmea (Gesneriaceae) inferred from both DNA sequence and novel findings in morphology with a test of morphology-based hypotheses”, in BMC Plant Biology, volume 15, →DOI
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