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Definition of Monoecious
1. Adjective. Having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal.
Similar to: Autoicous, Heteroicous, Polygamous, Polyoicous, Synoecious, Synoicous, Paroicous
Antonyms: Dioecious
Definition of Monoecious
1. Adjective. (botany) 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) ¹
2. Adjective. (biology) hermaphroditic ¹
3. Adjective. (alternative form of monoecious) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monoecious
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Monoecious
1. Having the male and female reproductive structures in separate flowers but on the same plant. Compare: dioecious. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monoecious
Literary usage of Monoecious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Prop, by seeds, sown in spring in peaty soil or cut monoecious, fascicled: fr.
about the size of ... Fis. monoecious : stigmas smooth : fruits black. alba. ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Flowers monoecious or polygamous. Parts of the tlower in fours. 1. ... Flowers
monoecious or polygamous. Limb of the calyx 4-lobed in the sterile flowers, ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... caudate-acuminate; spadix erect, strict, cylindrical; male inn. elongated,
female short and cylindrical: fls. monoecious in an elongated somewhat appen- ..."
4. Class Book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"... or by suppression, as in oak, occurs in various modes, rendering the plant
monoecious (8 ) ... monoecious ..."
5. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"Evergreen, monoecious trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, small and '• Mak fl.
a subsessile terminal column of ..."
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