the condition (e.g. in primroses) of having styles of different lengths relative to the stamens in the flowers of different individual plants, to reduce self-fertilization.
Derivatives
heterostylous
adjective
Origin:
late 19th century: from hetero- 'different' + Greek stulos 'column' + -y3
heterostyly in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of heterostyly in the US English dictionary
