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heterothallism (s) (noun), heterothallisms (pl)
In botany, the situation in which female and male reproductive organs exist on separate or dissimilar thalli: In Saly's book on botany, she read about heterothallism as the condition of female and male life-giving organs which were present on various vegetative body of lichen, algae, and fungi, that were undifferentiated
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