Meaning of dioecious | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having the male and female reproductive organs on separate plants (of the same species) rather than different parts of the same plant.
   not-comparable
2. Alternative spelling of dioecious.
   alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
3. Having two distinct sexes.
   not-comparable, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“Most plants are hermaphrodite, even if some of them (hazel, for example) keep their male and female flowers apart. But some plants are dioecious, i.e. they have separate sexes. Some of our most familiar wild plants, such as nettle and red campion, are dioecious. If your holly never has any berries, that's probably because it's a male.”

“…several of the Medusæ, probably all, are diœcious…”

“Low, creeping, heath-like shrubs, with small, crowded, entire, evergreen, leaves, and minute, axillary, diœcious flowers.”

“These berries will remain from December to July, that is, about eight months of the year. The Aucuba is diœcious. About a hundred years ago a traveller first brought some of these evergreens to England…”

“Heads many-flowered ; the flowers all tubular, perfect and similar, or rarely imperfectly diœcious. Scales of the ovoid or spherical involucre imbricated in many rows, tipped with a point or prickle.”

“Scalibregma inflatum is diœcious, and not hermaphrodite, as described by Danielssen. The gonads are formed by proliferation of the cells covering the septum by which the nephrostome is attached to the body-wall.”

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