Of plants: designating individuals of dioecious species whose flowers bear stamens but lack functional pistils. Later also: designating such a flower.

Designating the male gametes of a plant or animal; = male, adj. 1e. Obsolete. rare.

Botany. Formerly: †(of a flower) hermaphroditic or bisexual; gynandrous (obsolete); (also) †having male and female flowers or cones on the same…

Botany. Belonging to or characteristic of the Linnaean class or order Polygamia. Obsolete.

Botany. Of a spermatophyte: having male and female reproductive organs on separate flowers on the same plant. Also: designating such a flower. Cf. diœ…

Belonging to or characteristic of the Linnaean class Polygamia.

= monoecious, adj. 1. Now rare.

Of a flower or flowering plant: having both stamens and pistils in the same flower, hermaphrodite.

= monoecious, adj.

Botany. Having male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers in the same head. (Cf. polygamous, adj. 2.)

Botany. Of a plant: Bearing both stamens and pistils in every flower.

belonging to this order, or having the flowers thus distributed.

Botany. Of a cryptogam: having both male and female reproductive organs on the same individual.

Having male and female flowers in the same flower-head, as some Compositæ, or male and female organs in the same receptacle, as some mosses.

= synœcious, adj.

= autoecious, adj. 2.

‘With flowers on one plant hermaphrodite, and on the other staminate only.’ Gray Bot. Text-bk. 1880.

having male and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.

having perfect and female flowers on different plants.

having both perfect and female flowers on the same plant.

Designating a polygamous plant having bisexual, male, and female flowers. Now disused.

Botany. Of a bryophyte or its inflorescence: having both male and female sexual organs (antheridia and archegonia), but on separate shoots; also…

= monoclinous, adj.1