Unisexual Definition

Unisexual Sentence Examples

• The flowers spring in branching spadices from the axils of the leaves, and as the trees are unisexual it is necessary in cultivation to fertilize the female flowers by artificial means.

• Gonads not so restricted in position as in Oligochaets, and often more abundant; the individuals usually unisexual.

• By the suppression of the verticil of the stamens, or of the carpels, flowers become unisexual or diclinous, and by the suppression of one or both of the floral envelopes, monochlamydeous and achlamydeous flowers are produced.

• The tribe Smilacoideae, shrubby climbers with net-veined leaves and small unisexual flowers, bears much the same relationship to the order as a whole as does the order Dioscoreaceae, which have a similar habit, but flowers with am inferior ovary, to the Amaryllidaceae.

• Seedling plants from the cultivated vines often produce unisexual flowers, thus reverting to the feral type.