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Definition of Diecious
1. dioicous [adj] - See also: dioicous
Medical Definition of Diecious
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Diecious
Literary usage of Diecious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The flowers are diecious, and have no perianth ; the male inflorescences are
composed of a few stamens partly united at the apex of a scaly, axillary stalk, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"... particularly the bower, beset with numerous straight, axillary m.pines 2—3 in.
long: fin. minute, diecious, apetalous, axillary, appearing in May to ..."
3. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1891)
"Trees, with spicy aromatic bark, very mucilaginous twigs and foliage greenish-yellow
naked diecious flowers (appearing with the leaves) which are ..."
4. The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (southern California) Its Rivers and Its by George Wharton James (1906)
"On the trail up Palm Canyon It is interesting to note that, unlike most fruit
trees, the date is a diecious plant, that is, its flowers are borne on ..."
5. The Life and Letters of Gilbert White of Selborne by Rashleigh Holt-White (1901)
"Hops are diecious plants: hence, perhaps it might be proper, though not practiced,
to leave purposely some male plants in every garden, that their farina ..."
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