gynander (jinander)

[ 1. An effeminate man. [Rare.] An emasculated type, product of short-haired women and long-haired men, gynanders and androgynes. Scribner's Mag., III. 631. 2. A plant belonging to the cla Gynandria. Gynandria (ji-nan'dri-ä), n. pl. [NL.] The twentieth cla in the vegetable system of Linnæus, characterized by having gynandrous flowers, as in all orchid a- 81 ceo us plants. gynandrian (ji-nan'dri an), a. [ Gy nandria.] Of or pertaining B to the cla Gynandria. gynandro morphism (ji - nan - drō môr'fizm), n. an A Gynandria. A , section of flower of Bletia B , separated column of same, composed of the united style and filaments, bearing stigma ( s ) and thers (an). [ γυνή , female, + ἀνήρ ( άνδρ- ), male, + μορφή, form, + -ism.] In entom., a variation or monstrosity in which the peculiar characters of the male and female are found in the same individual. gynandromorph ous (ji-nan-drō-môr'fus), a. [ Mr. Curtis has figured a singular gynandromorph ous individual of Tenthredo cingulata, in which the opposite sides are not symmetrical, the right half being feminine and the left masculine. West wood. gynandrophore (ji-nan'dro-for), n. [ The "gynophore" or the "gynandrophore." Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 342. gynandrosporous (jin-an-dros'pō-rus), a. [ drospore, and, attaching itself, produces by growth a plant of three or four cells, called a dwarf male. The upper cell of the latter produces antherozoids which fertilize the oösphere. gynandrous (jin-an'drus), a. [ gynarchy (jin'är-ki), n.; pl. gynarchies (-kiz). [ I have always some hopes of change under a gynarchy. Chesterfield.