trimorphic
- a word derived from trimorphism.
Example Sentences
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With trimorphic species six unions are legitimate or fully fertile, and twelve are illegitimate or more or less infertile.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
In some other trimorphic and dimorphic genera we shall find the same curious fact, namely, that the long-styled form, fertilised illegitimately by its own-form pollen, produces almost exclusively long-styled seedlings.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Darwin, Charles
And now we see that this same conclusion is independently and strongly fortified by the consideration of the illegitimate unions of trimorphic and dimorphic heterostyled plants.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Darwin, Charles
The clear evidence that the species just described is heterostyled and trimorphic is the more valuable as there is some doubt with respect to P. cordata, an inhabitant of the United States.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Darwin, Charles
Fritz Muller formerly believed that a species of Oxalis, which is so abundant in St. Catharina that it borders the roads for miles, was dimorphic instead of trimorphic.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Darwin, Charles
