monoecious
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From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, solitary; mono-”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house, dwelling-place”).
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monoecious (not comparable)
- (botany, invertebrate) Having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual, either in different flowers[1] or in the same or different flowers;[2] hermaphrodite.
- 1978, A. J. E. Smith, “Cytogenetics, Biosystematics and Evolution in the Bryophyta”, in H. W. Woolhouse, editor, Advances in Botanical Research, volume 6, page 247:
- Further, species which show continuous variation that is not amenable to orthodox taxonomic treatment, and this is the situation in many monoecious plants, are treated as invariable.
- 1997, LeRoy Holm, Jerry Doll, Eric Holm, Juan Pancho, James Herberger, World Weeds: Natural Histories and Distribution, page 398:
- Recently, monoecious plants have been found in several places in the United States. The plants of Australia are monoecious and dioecious.
- 1999, Monica A. Geber, Gender and Sexual Dimorphism in Flowering Plants, page 70:
- Two factors are likely to allow the establishment of forms with reduced pollen output (i.e., fewer male flowers) in a monoecious population: increased seed fitness as a result of an increase in the ratio of female to male flowers, and a reduced rate of self-fertilisation.
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having the male and female reproductive organs on different parts of the same plant
See also[edit]
- Plant reproductive morphology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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