anacrogynous

[an-uh-kroj-uh-nuhs]

adjective

Botany.

1. having the female sexual organs arising from any cell below the apex of a plant's stem, thereby not terminating its growth, as with certain liverworts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of anacrogynous¹

an- ¹ + acrogynous

Example Sentences

Lastly Haplomitrium, a rare British genus, forms with the exotic Calobryum, an isolated group which is most naturally placed among the anacrogynous forms although the archegonia are in terminal groups.

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Indications of how this may have come about are afforded by the lower group of the Anacrogynous Jungermanniaceae, and throughout the Acrogynous Jungermanniacae the plant has well-marked stem and leaves.

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