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‖ Monœcia Bot.|mɒˈniːʃɪə|
[mod.L. (Linnæus 1735), f. Gr. µόνο-ς mono- + οἶκ-ος house: cf. Diœcia.]
The twenty-first class in the Sexual System of Linnæus, comprising plants which have the stamens and pistils, or male and female organs, in separate flowers, but on the same plant.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Monœcia, in botany, a class of plants which have not the male and female parts,..in the same, but in different flowers; and those on the same root. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. ix. (1794) 95. 1862 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) III. 304 About one-third of the British genera of aquatic plants belong to the Linnean classes of Mono- and Diœcia.
Hence moˈnœcian a. = monœcious; n. a monœcious plant or animal.
1828–32Webster, Monecian [a. and n.]; and in mod. Dicts. |