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monœcious, a.|mɒˈniːʃ(ɪ)əs|
Also monecious.
[f. Monœci-a + -ous.]
1. Bot.
a. Of phanerogams: Having unisexual male and female flowers on the same plant; belonging to the Linnæan class Monœcia. (Cf. monoicous a.)
1761Stiles in Phil. Trans. IV. 259 Not only in the Diœcious plants, but in the Monœcious and Polygamious also. 1822Hortus Anglicus II. 545 With flowers monœcious. 1877Darwin Forms of Fl. Introd. 9 We now come to our second Class, that of monœcious species, or those which have their sexes separated but borne on the same plant. 1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, Monœcious homogamy, fertilization from another inflorescence of the same plant (Delpino).
b. Of cryptogams: Having both male and female organs on the same individual.
1861Bentley Man. Bot. 393 When conceptacles of both kinds [sc. with antheridia and sporangia] occur on the same plant, this is termed monœcious, if on different plants, they are diœcious. 1887Ibid. (ed. 5) 396 Some species, as Fucus platycarpus, are monœcious, i.e. contain both antheridia and oogonia in the same conceptacle.
2. Zool. [Cf. monoic a.] Having the two sexes in one individual; hermaphrodite.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvii. 401 The first of these purposes was best promoted by creating things ‘according to their kind’, with sexes monœcious or diœcious. 1880Pascoe Zool. Classif. (ed. 2) 283 Monœcious. When the male and female are associated in one organism. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life Introd. 25 The testis may co-exist with the ovary in the same animal, which is then said to be monoecious or hermaphrodite.
Hence moˈnœciously adv.
1847W. Darlington Amer. Weeds Gloss. (1860) 424/2 Monœciously or monoicously polygamous; having perfect and imperfect flowers on the same plant. 1890in Century Dict.; and in later Dicts. |