Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cosexual

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: co-sex-u-al
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Producing both pollen and ovules.

adj

Being able to reproduce as both female and male.

noun

A cosexual organism.

Example Sentences

"The platyctenid Coeloplana gonoctena is protandrous (151) and probably is a true sex changer. Females are larger than males and are found only at the end of summer, while males are found all year. It is ectocommensal on an anthozoan. Other members of the genus are cosexual."
"First, many plants that appear to change sex are really sequential or alternating cosexuals; the oil palm, Elaeis guineensis (220), and com, Zea mays (173), are examples[…]"

Etymology

From co- + sexual.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: co

Inflected Forms

cosexuals (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

dichogamous

Synonyms

simultaneous hermaphrodite

Questions

What does cosexual mean?: Producing both pollen and ovules.
Where does cosexual come from?: From co- + sexual.

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