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monoecious
[muh-nee-shuhs]
adjective
Biology.having both male and female organs in the same individual; hermaphroditic.
Botany.(of a plant, species, etc.) having the stamens and the pistils in separate flowers on the same plant.
monoecious
/ mɒˈniːʃəs, mɒˈnɔɪkəs /
adjective
(of some flowering plants) having the male and female reproductive organs in separate flowers on the same plant
(of some animals and lower plants) hermaphrodite
monoecious
Having separate male flowers and female flowers on the same plant. Maize and oaks are monoecious plants.
Compare dioecious
Other Word Forms
- monoeciously adverb
- monoecism noun
- monoecy noun
- ˈԴDZdzܲ adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of monoecious1
Word History and Origins
Origin of monoecious1
Example Sentences
The term for this is "monoecious," and because pumpkins are monoecious, they can cross pollinate with other pumpkins to create vegetables with a wide range of colors, shapes, textures and other variations.
As flowering plants, they had four choices: male, female, non-reproductive, and monoecious, a state in which both male and female flowers were present on the same tree.
Lots of other trees, like me, are called “monoecious.”
Flowers monoecious or dioecious, unisexual, without a perianth, often in the form of cones, but never terminal on the main stem.
In warmer countries monoecious and dioecious grasses are more frequent.
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