Associations to the word «Protandry»

Wiktionary

PROTANDRY, noun. (biology) The condition in which an organism begins life as a male and then changes into a female.
PROTANDRY, noun. (botany) The condition of flowers whose male parts mature before the female ones.

Wise words

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