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Definition of Monoecism
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Monoecism
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Monoecism
Literary usage of Monoecism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teachers College Record by Columbia University. Teachers College (1900)
"... and monoecism, floral diagrams. Presence or absence of nectaries, the character
of pollen (sticky or dry and powdery), character of the fruit and method ..."
2. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... + monoecism), the condition of two out of three kinds of monoecious flowers,
having perfect flowers, and (a) male, (b) female, or (c) neuter flowers ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1895)
"monoecism presents similar phenomena. Cleistogamy is also a very variable
phenomenon, appearing sporadically in many plants, constantly in others. ..."
4. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"... when on the same individual andro- or gyno-monoecism. The perianth usually
consists of two whorls of members : these may be similar in form and colour ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1883)
"It did not follow that the presence of fruit on isolated trees involved monoecism.
Mr. Redfield observed that pollen from the large male tree, ..."
6. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"... or in a particular part of the plant (monoecism). In the present case, the
regenerating organs contained only the sexual nuclei, which in each case, ..."
7. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"... thus greatly facilitating the fusion of gametes; among such substances are
cane sugar (as in mosses) and malic acid (as in ferns). monoecism and ..."
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