Monoecious

Quick meaning: Monoecious is an adjective meaning (botany, invertebrate) Having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual, either in different flowers or in the same or different flowers; hermaphrodite.

Meaning

(botany, invertebrate) Having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual, either in different flowers or in the same or different flowers; hermaphrodite.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• monecious
• monoicous

Synonyms for monoecious

Depending on context, synonyms include monecious.

Antonyms for monoecious

Common opposites include dioecious, dioecian.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include monecious, monoicous, dioecious, synoecious, polygamodioecious, trimonoecious.

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