- Some species are monoecious, some dioecious, but many are hermaphroditic, most often protandrous, the gonad at first producing sperm and later eggs.
Protandrous
adjective; derivation
In a hermaphroditic animal or plant, describes the development of male organs before the development of female organs.
Etymology : Gr. proto-‘first or foremost’ + -androus ‘male’
Source : Integrated Principles of Zoology, p.321
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