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Definition of Dioecian
1. Adjective. Having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dioecian
Literary usage of Dioecian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1882)
"... whether by reason of this affinity, or on account of their dioecian state,
and the non-contemporaneity in the development of their organs. ..."
2. The Andover Review edited by Egbert Coffin Smyth, William Jewett Tucker, John Wesley Churchill, George Harris, Edward Young Hincks (1890)
"In the dioecian volvox, the female cellules are all joined together in one colony,
and the male in another. In the male colony every individual is alike, ..."
3. The Organism as a Whole: From a Physicochemical Viewpoint by Jacques Loeb (1916)
"... both types of sex organs, while in a dioecian animal probably only one type
of sex organ would be developed; the formation of the other being inhibited. ..."
4. The Basis of Passional Psychology: A Study of the Laws of Love in Man and by Jacobus X (1901)
"... is not the most important nor the most indispensable factor for reproduction;
for in dioecian plants, the females are able to be multiplied by slips, ..."
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