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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MONOECIOUS

MONOECIOUS Mo *noe "cious, a. (Biol.)

 

Defn: Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to Ant: dioecious.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

monoecious

mo noe cious |məˈnēSHəs məˈniʃəs | ▶adjective Biology (of a plant or invertebrate animal ) having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual; hermaphrodite. Compare with dioecious. DERIVATIVES mo noe cy |ˈmänˌēsē, ˈmō - |noun ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from modern Latin Monoecia (denoting a class of such plants in Linnaeus's system ), from Greek monos ‘single ’ + oikos ‘house. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

monoecious

monoecious |məˈniːʃəs | ▶adjective Biology (of a plant or invertebrate animal ) having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual; hermaphrodite. Compare with dioecious. DERIVATIVES monoecy noun ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from modern Latin Monoecia (denoting a class of such plants in Linnaeus's system ), from Greek monos ‘single ’ + oikos ‘house ’.