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What does protandrous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (biology) Exhibiting protandry.
  2. (botany) Whose male parts (anthers) becomes mature before the female ones (stigma).
  3. (botany) Whose male parts (antheridia) release their spermatozoids before the female parts (archegonia) mature.
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It is a wind-pollinated species, with hermaphroditic protandrous flowers.
Perfect flowers are protandrous, hence the stigmas open after anthesis, which reduces the probability of autogamous self-pollination.
The flowers are resupinate, protandrous and last for 2 days.
The mode of reproduction for whelks also needs investigation because Castagna and Kraeuter suggested that knobbed whelk may be protandrous hermaphrodites.
Proximate control and adaptive potential of protandrous migration in birds.
The flowers are protandrous, and larger plants have a lower pollen to ovule ratio than smaller plants, suggesting larger plants invest proportionally more in female function.

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