Usually means: Floral morphology promoting cross-pollination diversity.
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  1. heterostyly: Merriam-Webster
  2. heterostyly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heterostyly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. heterostyly: Wordnik
  5. heterostyly: Wiktionary
  6. heterostyly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. heterostyly: Dictionary.com
  8. Heterostyly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. heterostyly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. heterostyly: Encyclopedia

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  1. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heterostyly)

▸ noun:  (botany) The condition of having unequal styles

Similar:
heterodactyly, tetragyny, hexastylos, bicoloration, polycotyly, polyphylly, bicolouration, tetrandry, monostely, orthostyle, more...

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distichous, monochasial, trichotomous, more...

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Similar:
heterodactyly, tetragyny, hexastylos, bicoloration, polycotyly, polyphylly, bicolouration, tetrandry, monostely, orthostyle, more...

Types:
distichous, monochasial, trichotomous, more...



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