monoecious
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /məˈniː.ʃəs/
monoecious (not comparable)
- (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.
- 1978, A. J. E. Smith, Cytogenetics, Biosystematics and Evolution in the Bryophyta, H. W. Woolhouse (editor), Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 6, page 247 ↗,
- 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.
- 1997, LeRoy Holm, Jerry Doll, Eric Holm, Juan Pancho, James Herberger, World Weeds: Natural Histories and Distribution, page 398 ↗,
- Recently, monoecious plants have been found in several places in the United States. The plants of Australia are monoecious and dioecious.
- 1999, Monica A. Geber, Gender and Sexual Dimorphism in Flowering Plants, page 70 ↗,
- 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.
- 1978, A. J. E. Smith, Cytogenetics, Biosystematics and Evolution in the Bryophyta, H. W. Woolhouse (editor), Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 6, page 247 ↗,
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