Word Meanings - PROTEROGYNOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous.

Related words: (words related to PROTEROGYNOUS)

• PROTOGYNOUS
  See PROTEROGYNOUS
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• MATURITY
  1. The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan. 2. Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note,
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• PISTILLATION
  The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• PISTILLACEOUS
  Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil. Barton.
• PISTILLIDIUM
  See ARCHEGONIUM
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• EPISTILBITE
  A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE