gonochorism

gonochorism has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• n.. Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to hermaphroditism.
• n.. In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs.
• n.. In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless.