Question

explain dichogamy ?​

Answer 1

• ripening of the stamens and pistils of a flower at different times, so that self-fertilization is prevented.

Answer 2

Answer:

Definition of dichogamy

: the production of male and female reproductive elements at different times by a hermaphroditic organism in order to ensure cross-fertilization

Other Words from dichogamy

dichogamous \ dī-ˈkä-gə-məs \ adjective

First Known Use of dichogamy

1862, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for dichogamy

borrowed from New Latin dichogamia & German Dichogamie, from dicho- DICHO- + -gamia, -gamie -GAMY

NOTE: Term introduced in both German and Latin by the German naturalist Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750-1816) in Das entdeckte Geheimnis der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen (Berlin, 1793), p. 17/18.p