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Definition of Monecious
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 Monecious
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Monecious
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Monecious
Literary usage of Monecious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Ohio Biological Survey (1915)
"monecious 'grasses having the staminate and carpellate spikelets in different
... Tall stout monecious perennials with solid stems, thick creeping rhizomes, ..."
2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1902)
"... the floral gradually reduced, becoming lanceolate and bract-like: monecious,
androgynous at least above, the flowers in small axillary clusters and in ..."
3. Rural Sociology by John Morris Gillette (1922)
"In the case of plants, we may take as an instance the monecious plants, those
having both male and female organs, or stamens and pistils, ..."
4. Productive Plant Husbandry: A Text-book for High Schools, Including Plant by Kary Cadmus Davis (1917)
"monecious plants, as corn, are those in which the staminate flowers and pistillate
flowers are both on the same plant. ..."
5. Bulletin by Ohio Biological Survey (1915)
"monecious 'grasses having the staminate and carpellate spikelets in different
... Tall stout monecious perennials with solid stems, thick creeping rhizomes, ..."
6. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1902)
"... the floral gradually reduced, becoming lanceolate and bract-like: monecious,
androgynous at least above, the flowers in small axillary clusters and in ..."
7. Rural Sociology by John Morris Gillette (1922)
"In the case of plants, we may take as an instance the monecious plants, those
having both male and female organs, or stamens and pistils, ..."
8. Productive Plant Husbandry: A Text-book for High Schools, Including Plant by Kary Cadmus Davis (1917)
"monecious plants, as corn, are those in which the staminate flowers and pistillate
flowers are both on the same plant. ..."
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