Each male willow catkin is composed of a large number of small flowers.

The flowers are catkins with elongate male catkins on the same plant as shorter female catkins, often before leaves appear ; they are mainly wind-pollinated, but also visited by bees to a small extent.

They stay on the tree for a long time ; the male flowers have a strong odour.

The flowers are unisexual, with male and female flowers on different plants ( dioecious ) or on the same plant ( monoecious ).

The ancients had a variety of ideas about heredity: Theophrastus proposed that male flowers caused female flowers to ripen ; Hippocrates speculated that " seeds " were produced by various body parts and transmitted to offspring at the time of conception ; and Aristotle thought that male and female semen mixed at conception.

He says that " the female date-trees or palms do not bear fruit unless the branches of the male and female plants are mixed together ; or, as is generally done, unless the dust found in the male sheath or male flowers is sprinkled over the female flowers ".

In addition, in the late 1970s Janzen and Mary Willson, noting that male flowers are often larger than female flowers, expanded the field of sexual selection into plants.

V. planifolia flowers are hermaphroditic: They carry both male ( anther ) and female ( stigma ) organs ; however, to avoid self-pollination, a membrane separates those organs.

Cannabis normally has imperfect flowers, with staminate " male " and pistillate " female " flowers occurring on separate plants.

It is not unusual, however, for individual plants to bear both male and female flowers.

Although monoecious plants are often referred to as " hermaphrodites ," true hermaphrodites ( which are less common ) bear staminate and pistillate structures on individual flowers, whereas monoecious plants bear male and female flowers at different locations on the same plant.

The plants are monoecious, with unisexual male and female flowers occurring separately on the same plant, the male containing numerous stamens, the female having a large inferior ovary and two to four branched or twisted stigmas.

but four Eromonga women are more than a match for the strongest male that ever lived.

In the film, there are no male actors and the four leading actresses dubbed themselves in the Castilian version.

In salamandrids, the male deposits a bundle of sperm, the spermatophore, and the female picks it up and inserts it into her cloaca where the sperm is stored until the eggs are laid.

They are attracted there by the calling of the first male to find a suitable place, perhaps a pool that forms in the same place each rainy season.

Abbesses are, like abbots, major superiors according to canon law, the equivalents of abbots or bishops ( the ordained male members of the church hierarchy who have, by right of their own office, executive jurisdiction over a building, diocesan territory, or a communal or non-communal group of persons — juridical entities under church law ).

However, there are certain limitations: they may not administer the sacraments and related functions whose celebration is reserved to bishops, priests, deacons, or seminarians ( the male clergy ), namely, Holy Orders ( they may make provision for an ordained cleric to help train and to admit some of their members, if needed, as altar servers, Eucharistic ministers, or lectors-the minor ministries which are now open to the non-ordained ).

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

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: huiotes ); according to Marcus, they are numbers and sounds ; in Valentinianism they form male / female pairs called " syzygies " ( Greek, from σύζυγοι syzygoi ).

Medicinal herbs are common in the whole country ; among the most popular are: chamomile, lanceleaf, boldo, poleo, peperina, carqueja, thyme, canchalagua, rue ( macho and hembra, that is, " male " and " female "), mallow, rosemary, passion flower, bira bira, palán palán, muña muña, to mention only the main ones.

In a typical case of running amok, a male who has shown no previous sign of anger or any inclination to violence will acquire a weapon, traditionally a sword or dagger, but presently a variety of weapons are used, and in a sudden frenzy, will attempt to kill or seriously injure anyone he encounters.

Although those of many marine species function first as males and then as females, their colonies always contain a combination of zooids that are in their male and female stages.

This is because the male players are usually substantially stronger, and can therefore produce smashes that are more powerful.

Differing saddle designs exist for male and female cyclists, accommodating the genders ' differing anatomies, although bikes typically are sold with saddles most appropriate for men.

The vision in the third year of Belshazzar concerning a ram and a male goat ( 8: 1-27 ) which, we are informed, represent Medea, Persia ( the ram's two horns ), and Greece ( the goat ).

The last five chapters are exclusively concerned with land: instructions for the extermination of the Canaanites, the demarcation of the boundaries of the land, how the land is to be divided, holy cities for the Levites and " cities of refuge ", the problem of pollution of the land by blood, and regulations for inheritance when a male heir is lacking.

Humans are also attacked if they approach a nest too closely, with the aggressive male having torn clothes and drawn blood in such cases.

Both males are females will incubate, with the male often incubating at night and, during the day, defending the nest territory during the day while the female incubates.

In men, the mammary glands are also present in the body, but normally remain undeveloped because of the hormone testosterone, however, when male lactation occurs, it is considered a pathological symptom of a disorder of the pituitary gland.

Both sexes have heavy spiral horns — those of the male are longer and more massive.

In 1474, King Henry IV of Castile died without a male heir.

Still without a male heir, Aegeus asked the oracle at Delphi for advice.

In 1328, King Charles IV of France died without male heirs, as his brothers did before him.

Roles and responsibilities of husband and wives now vary considerably on a continuum between the long-held male dominant / female submission view and a growing shift toward equality ( without sameness ) of the woman and the man.

Still without a son and in danger of being left with no male heir, facing substantial opposition to Eleanor from many of his barons and her own desire for divorce, Louis had no choice but to bow to the inevitable.

The second Baronet died without male issue and was succeeded by his younger brother, the third Baronet.

The brutality towards women who attempted to work, learn, or leave the house without a male escort caused outside aid to the war-torn country to be limited.

After the duke died without a male heir in 1447, fighting broke out to restore the so-called Ambrosian Republic.

Some species are parthenogenic, which means the female is capable of reproducing without copulating with a male.

When the last male member of the Salian dynasty, Emperor Henry V, had died without heirs in 1125, a controversy arose about the succession.

Left without male heirs, Henry took the unprecedented step of making his barons swear to accept his daughter Empress Matilda, widow of Henry V, the Holy Roman Emperor, as his heir.

Raymond and Bohemond were King Baldwin's nearest male relatives in the paternal line, and could have claimed the throne if the king died without an heir or a suitable replacement.

By the time Mary was nine years old, it was apparent that Henry and Catherine would have no more children, leaving Henry without a legitimate male heir.

* 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir.

* 1383 – The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.

Naturalistic depictions of Pictish nobles, hunters and warriors, male and female, without obvious tattoos, are found on monumental stones.

:" It has recently come to our ears, not without great pain to us, that in some parts of upper Germany, [...] Mainz, Koin, Trier, Salzburg, and Bremen, many persons of both sexes, heedless of their own salvation and forsaking the catholic faith, give themselves over to devils male and female, and by their incantations, charms, and conjurings, and by other abominable superstitions and sortileges, offences, crimes, and misdeeds, ruin and cause to perish the offspring of women, the foal of animals, the products of the earth, the grapes of vines, and the fruits of trees, as well as men and women, cattle and flocks and herds and animals of every kind, vineyards also and orchards, meadows, pastures, harvests, grains and other fruits of the earth ; that they afflict and torture with dire pains and anguish, both internal and external, these men, women, cattle, flocks, herds, and animals, and hinder men from begetting [...]"

Alexander I succeeded him on the throne and later died without leaving a male heir.

A dominant male must stay in his territory to defend it, which can mean months without eating, living on his store of blubber.

During sexual intercourse using condoms, for example, the male might intentionally pull off the condom and continue penetrating without the female ( or male receptive partner )' s consent and notice.

Future hereditary Guardians were permitted in the Bahá ' í scripture by appointment from one to the next, but a prerequisite that appointees be male descendants of Bahá ' u ' lláh left no suitable living candidates, and Shoghi Effendi died without making an appointment.

The House of Justice is elected without nominations or campaigning and all adult male members of the Bahá ' í Faith are eligible for election to the House.

In 1447 Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, died without a male heir ; following the end of the Visconti line, the Ambrosian Republic was enacted.

Susan Driver writes that younger viewers especially appreciate that Willow and Tara are able to be affectionate without becoming overly sexual, thus making them objects of fantasy for male enjoyment.