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Definition of Diclinous
1. Adjective. Having pistils and stamens in separate flowers.
Definition of Diclinous
1. a. Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers.
Definition of Diclinous
1. Adjective. (context: botany dated) unisexual. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diclinous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Diclinous
1. Having the stamens and the carpels in separate flowers. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diclinous
| diclazuril diclinic diclinies diclinism diclinisms dicliny diclofenac diclofenac sodium diclofensine diclosulam | dicloxacillin dicloxacillin sodium dicluster diclusters dicobalt dicoccous dicofol dicolon |
Literary usage of Diclinous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"In certain flowers, as those of the cucumber, melon, hop, hazel, and willow, one
or other of the essential parts are missing : such are said to be diclinous ..."
2. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"In certain flowers, as those of the cucumber, melon, hop, hazel, and willow, one
or other of the essential parts are missing : such are said to be diclinous ..."
3. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin (1876)
"... plants generally have their sexes separated —Conversion of diclinous into
hermaphrodite flowers—Trees often have their sexes separated. ..."
4. Lessons with Plants: Suggestions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of the by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"diclinous flowers of the cucumber. a peduncle, and the real flowers are sessile;
the staminate catkins of the hickory (Fig. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by William Thomas Brande, George William Cox (1867)
"... which are opposed to each other by contradiction. The reduction can be made
at each stage of any division, however complex. diclinous (Gr. 5is, and i. ..."
6. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"Unisexual, or Separated, or diclinous Flowers, imperfect flowers, as they have
been called iu contradistinction to perfect flowers; but that term is too ..."
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