Having irregular, unusual, or atypical reproductive organs or structures; characterized by anomalous gonadal features.
From anomalogonatae with the adjectival suffix -ous. This systematic biological descriptor was used to classify organisms based on unusual reproductive anatomy that distinguished them from typical members of their group.
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