Meaning of monoecious | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Archaic form of monoecious.
   alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
2. Having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual, either in different flowers or in the same or different flowers; hermaphrodite.
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Further, species which show continuous variation that is not amenable to orthodox taxonomic treatment, and this is the situation in many monoecious plants, are treated as invariable.”

“Recently, monoecious plants have been found in several places in the United States. The plants of Australia are monoecious and dioecious.”

“Two factors are likely to allow the establishment of forms with reduced pollen output (i.e., fewer male flowers) in a monoecious population: increased seed fitness as a result of an increase in the ratio of female to male flowers, and a reduced rate of self-fertilisation.”

“In monœcious mosses the separation of the sexes occurs in the somatic divisions at the time the sex organs are formed.”

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