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Monoecious

//məˈniː.ʃəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, solitary”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house, dwelling-place”), equivalent to mono- + -oecious.

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