Trimonoecious

Quick meaning: Trimonoecious is an adjective meaning (botany) That has male, female and bisexual (perfect) flowers on the same individual plant.

Meaning

(botany) That has male, female and bisexual (perfect) flowers on the same individual plant.

Example Sentences

Finally, there is the trimonoecious group, which has a mixture of staminate, pistillate, and hermaphroditic flowers all on the same plant.

Six different sex forms have been reported in C.^([Cucumis]) melo, i.e., monoecious, andromonoecious, gynomonoecious, hermaphrodite, trimonoecious, and gynoecious (Poole and Grimball 1939).

Trivedi and Roy (1973) have reported the appearance of various intermediate sex forms such as andromonoecious, gynoecious, and trimonoecious in colchicine-treated plants of M. charantia, but remaining as diploids.

Individual plants are either hermaphrodites (all flowers are hermaphrodites), monoecious (both male and female flowers), andromonoecious (male and hermaphrodite flowers), gynomonoecious (female and hermaphrodite flowers) or trimonoecious (all three types of flowers).

Synonyms for trimonoecious

Depending on context, synonyms include polygamous, polygamomonoecious.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include polygamodioecious, trioecious, trigamous, monoecious, trimorphic, triecious.

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