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diœcious
diœcious, a. (daɪˈiːʃ(ɪ)əs) [f. Diœcia + -ous.] 1. Bot. Of plants: Having the unisexual male and female flowers on separate plants.1748–52 Sir J. Hill Nat. Hist., Plants 291 (Jodr.) The rhamnus with terminatory spikes and quadrified diœcious flowers. 1789 G. White Selborne (1853) 393 Hops are diœcio...
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synœcious
synœcious, a. Bot. (sɪˈniːʃ(ɪ)əs) [f. syn-1 after diœcious, monœcious; cf. Gr. συνοικία a community of persons living together.] Having male and female flowers in the same flower-head, as some Compositæ, or male and female organs in the same receptacle, as some mosses.1863 M. J. Berkeley Brit. Mosse...
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diœcio-
diœcio- (daɪˈiːʃɪəʊ) comb. f. diœcious, = diœciously; as diœciodimorphous, diœciopolygamous.1883 Syd. Soc. Lex., Diœciopolygamous..a term applied to those plants of which some individuals bear unisexual and some bisexual flowers.
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diclinous
diclinous, a. Bot. (ˈdaɪklɪnəs) [f. F. dicline (1793 in Hatz.-Darm.) or Bot.L. Diclines pl. (Jussieu 1779), f. Gr. δι- twice, double (di-2) + κλίνη bed, couch: see -ous. (A. L. de Jussieu gave the name Diclines irregulares to the 15th class of his arrangement of the Natural Orders.)] Having the stam...
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monœcious
monœcious, a. (mɒˈniːʃ(ɪ)əs) Also monecious. [f. Monœci-a + -ous.] 1. Bot. a. Of phanerogams: Having unisexual male and female flowers on the same plant; belonging to the Linnæan class Monœcia. (Cf. monoicous a.)1761 Stiles in Phil. Trans. IV. 259 Not only in the Diœcious plants, but in the Monœciou...
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dioic
dioic, a. rare—0. (ˈdaɪɔɪk) [ad. F. dioïque (Bulliard 1783), or mod.L. dioicus (Linnæus 1753), a. Gr. type *δίοικος: see Diœcia.] = diœcious. So diˈoicous a.1883 in Syd. Soc. Lex.
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Diœcia
‖ Diœcia Bot. (daɪˈiːʃɪə) [mod.L. (Linnæus 1735), a. Gr. type *διοικία, abstr. n. from *δίοικος having two houses, f. δι-, (di-2) twice + οἶκος house. Cf. Monœcia.] The twenty-second class in the Sexual System of Linnæus, comprising plants which have male (staminiferous) and female (pistilliferous) ...
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parœcious
parœcious, a. Bot. (pəˈriːʃ(ɪ)əs) [f. Gr. πάροικος dwelling side by side, παροικία the condition of so dwelling (see parish) + -ous; after diœcious, etc.] Having the male and female reproductive organs growing beside or near each other, as in certain cryptogams. Hence paˈrœciously adv., paˈrœciousne...
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andro-diœcious
andro-diœcious, a. Bot. (ˌændrəʊdaɪˈiːʃəs) [f. Gr. ἀνδρο- male + diœcious, f. δι- (di-2) twice + οἰκία house + -ous.] ‘With flowers on one plant hermaphrodite, and on the other staminate only.’ Gray Bot. Text-bk. 1880. Hence androdiˈœcism, the state of being androdiœcious.1877 C. Darwin Different Fo...
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diœcism
diœcism (daɪˈiːsɪz(ə)m) [ad. mod.L. diœcismus, Ger. diöcismus (Sachs), f. Gr. *δίοικ-ος (in L. form diœcus: see Diœcia) + -ism.] Diœcious condition.1875 Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 807 This distribution of the sexes, which is generally termed Diœcism, occurs in all classes and orders of the vegetable...
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dichogamous
dichogamous, a. Bot. (daɪˈkɒgəməs) [mod. f. Gr. type *διχόγαµος (f. διχο-, dicho-, asunder, separately + -γαµος wedded, married, γάµ-ος wedding) + -ous.] Said of those hermaphrodite plants in which the stamens and pistils (or analogous organs) become mature at different times, so that self-fertiliza...
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anandrous
anandrous, a. Bot. (æˈnændrəs) [f. Gr. ἄνανδρ-ος husbandless, without males (f. ἀν privative + ἀνδρ- male) + -ous.] Having no stamens; said of the females of diœcious, or the female flowers of monœcious plants.1847 in Craig. 1872 Britten in Jrnl. Bot. X. 47 Anandrous state of Erica cinerea.
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genic
genic, a. (ˈdʒiːnɪk, ˈdʒɛnɪk) [f. gene1 + -ic.] Of or pertaining to genes.1922 C. B. Bridges in Amer. Naturalist LVI. 57 Comparison..between the effects of haploidy for an autosome and the effects normally present in diœcious sex shows that they have similar genic bases—namely, each is due to differ...
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gyno-
gyno- (gaɪnə, dʒaɪ-, dʒɪ-) before a vowel gyn- (gaɪn), reduced form of gynæco-, used chiefly in botantical terms with the meaning ‘pistil’, ‘ovary’ (the more important are given as main-words): gynantherous (-ˈænθərəs) a. Bot. [anther]: see quot. gynocardic (-ˈkɑːdɪk) a. Chem. [f. mod.L. Gynocardia ...
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