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Definition of Monoicous
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 Monoicous
1. a. Monœcious.
Definition of Monoicous
1. Adjective. (alternative form of monoecious) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monoicous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Monoicous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Monoicous
Literary usage of Monoicous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"Capitula monoicous; florets of the ray 1-series, female, ligulate, 3-cleft, of
the disk, male: branches of the style of the female linear, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"... 2-4-spiral ; monoicous. 5- ^ gracili*. Ç branch from apex of a small lateral
innovation, the latter springing from the costa at one side of its median ..."
3. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"... fruit fleshy, enclosing a hard seed Flowers monoicous ; pericarp fibrous,
endocarp hard, with bony albumen 4. ..."
4. A synopsis of the British mosses by Charles Codrington Pressick Hobkirk (1873)
"Infl. monoicous or ... in monoicous species placed near the base of ... Infl.
monoicous ; barren fl. near the fertile, naked, ..."
5. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"... stem leaves are quadrate- hexagonal and the operculum of the asymmetric
oblong-ovate capsule obliquely rostrate; monoicous; spores maturing in autumn. ..."
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