Monoecious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Botany Having unisexual reproductive organs or flowers, with the organs or flowers of both sexes borne on a single plant, as in corn and pines.
  • adj. Biology Relating to or exhibiting hermaphroditism; hermaphroditic.
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  • adj. Having the male and female reproductive organs on different parts (e.g. different flowers) of the same plant rather than on separate plants (of the same species)
  • adj. hermaphroditic
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to diœcious.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In botany:
  • In phanerogams, having the stamens and pistils in different flowers on the same plant.
  • In cryptogams, having both male and female organs on the same individual.
  • In zoology, having both male and female sexual organs; hermaphrodite; androgynous: applied according to the corresponding usage in botany: opposed to diœcious.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal
  • adj. having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal
    • Equivalent
    paroicous    synoecious    heteroicous    polygamous    synoicous   
    Antonym
    dioecious   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hermaphrodite   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    polygynous    solid-waste    desalination    trimorphic    bare-root   
     
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