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Definition of Dioecious
1. Adjective. Having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals.
Definition of Dioecious
1. Adjective. (botany) Having the male and female reproductive organs on separate plants (of the same species) rather than different parts of the same plant. ¹
2. Adjective. (zoology) Having two distinct sexes. ¹
3. Adjective. (alternative spelling of dioecious#English dioecious) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dioecious
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Dioecious
1. Having the male and female reproductive structures on separate plants. Compare: monoecious. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dioecious
Literary usage of Dioecious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"In all the dioecious species carefully investigated the opposite gametes, which
are produced and unite to form zygospores when the two sexual races of a ..."
2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Flowers often polygamous, sometimes dioecious. Leaves mostly alternate ; stipules
small or obsolete. Branches often thorny. — Slightly bitter and astringent ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1857)
"A paper was in part read, entitled "On the dioecious Character of the Rotifera.
... The reading of Mr. Gosse's paper, "On the dioecious Character of the ..."
4. The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The first grows three or four feet high, with horizontal and very spreading
branches; with short, pointed, decurrent, erect, opposite leaves ; and dioecious ..."
5. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1889)
"Fis. dioecious, staminale fls. in conspicuous spikes; perennial 34 BUCHLOE. 6.
... Flowers dioecious, the pistillate in short capitate spikes 34 BUCHLOE. ..."
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