Homoecious

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the same host during the entire life cycle. not-comparable
  2. 2
    A plant species having only hermaphroditic flowers (also known as bisexual or perfect flowers), that is those with both carpels (female) and stamens (male). not-comparable

    "Further, we use homoecious to describe angiosperms with only bisexual flowers. This is an alternative state to heteroecious and complements monoecious and dioecious."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
autoeciousautoecious

Example

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"Further, we use homoecious to describe angiosperms with only bisexual flowers. This is an alternative state to heteroecious and complements monoecious and dioecious."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὅμοιος- (hómoios-, “of like kind, similar”) + οἰκία (oikía, “house, family, tribe”), equivalent to homoe- + -oecious.

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