gyno-, gyn-, gynaeco-, gyneco-, gyne-, -gynia, -gynic, gynec-, -gynist, -gynous, -gyny +
(Greek: woman, women, female, females; not masculine, male, man, or men)
Many of the words from these Greek elements refer to botanic or other biological nomenclature.
dyscalligynia
Antipathy for, or hatred of, beautiful women.
ecoproterogynous
Having the female flowers mature before the male flowers.
endecagynous
In botany, having eleven pistils.
enneagynous
In botany, having nine pistils.
epigynous, epigyny
In botany, that which is placed upon the ovary; growing upon the summit of the ovary. Said of the stamens or corolla; hence of plants in which these are so placed.
ergatogyne
A fertile female ant lacking wings and therefore resembling an ergate (a worker ant).
ergatogynomorphic, ergatogynomorph, ergatogynomorphous
A reference to social insects in which worker and female characters are blended.
ergatogynous
Having worker-like females, as in some social insects.
exogynous
Having the style projecting prominently out of the flower. The “style” is the sterile portion of a carpel between the ovary and the terminal stigma [the apex of a carpel in flowering plants upon which the pollen grain germinates].
gymnogynous
In botany, having an uncovered ovary (seed).
gynacme
Female orgasm.
gynaeceum, gyneceum
1. Women’s apartments in a house or a palace.
2. A harem.
gynander, gynandria
1. A woman with male characteristics.
2. A male hermaphrodite.
3. An individual of a bisexual species, exhibiting a “sexual mosaic” of male and female characters as a result of the development of both types of sex tissue in the same organism.
gynandrarchy
1. A social organization among insects differing from gynarchy in that the male takes part in establishing the colony.
2. Rule or government by a man and a woman or by both men and women.
gynandria
In botany, the Linnaean system of plant classification that class distinguished by possessing stamens growing in the pistil and united with it.
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Related "woman, female" units:
anilo-;
fem-;
mulie-;
virgo-.
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