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A Linnæan class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.

A Linnæan class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.

Belonging to the Polygamia; bearing both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.

An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air- breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnæa and Planorbis.

An hermaphrodite. [Obs.] Skinner.

A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setæ on the sides.

and allied genera, having silvery spots on the under side of the wings. See Illust. under Aphrodite.

kin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodite. Called also Trematoda, and Trematoidea. See Fluke, Tristoma, and Cercaria.

Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.

the sexes are in separate individuals; dioecious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Dioecious.

e retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.

lk of the eggs in many turbellarians, and in some other invertebrates. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Appendix. -- Yolk sack (Anat.), the umbilical vesicle. See under Unbilical.