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monoicous, a. Bot.|məˈnɔɪkəs|
[f. mod.L. monoic-us, F. monoïque, irreg. ad. Gr. type *µόνοικος (see Monœcia) + -ous.]
a. = monœcious 1. Now rare or Obs.
b. Applied by Darwin to those ‘polygamous’ plants which have the three sexual varieties together on the same individual: opposed to trioicous.
1822Good Study Med. IV. 5 Monoicous plants. 1831J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 154 Flowers greenish, small, monoicous, disposed in spikes. 1863Berkeley Brit. Mosses 65 Cryphæa, Mohr. Monoicous. 1877Darwin Forms of Fl. Introd. 12 Of the other or monoicous sub-group of polygamous plants, or those which bear hermaphrodite, male and female flowers on the same individual, the Common Maple (Acer campestre) offers a good instance.
Hence moˈnoicously adv.
1847[see monœciously]. |