paroeciousadj.
/pəˈriːʃəs/, U.S. /pəˈriʃəs/ Botany.
Of a bryophyte: having the male and female reproductive organs in close proximity but not mixed, esp. when the antheridia are in the axils of bracts immediately below those surrounding the archegonia. Cf. paroicous adj., synœcious adj.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > cryptogam or plant having spores > [adjective] > of or having parts > having reproductive organs growing together
paroecious1877
paroicous1890
1877 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 6 144 Inflorescence usually parœcious, with the antheridia in the axil of a single..comal leaf.
1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. Parecious, etc., same as parœcious, etc.
1955 E. V. Watson Brit. Mosses & Liverworts 340 In L[ophocolea] heterophylla the male bracts occur in several pairs immediately below the perianth (the ‘paroecious’ condition), not on separate branches as in L. cuspidata.
1995 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 82 818/1 In paroecious mosses the archegonia and antheridia are separated but in the same inflorescence.
Derivatives
paˈroeciously adv. rare in a paroecious manner.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Parœciously.
paˈroeciousness n. rare = paroecism n.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Parœciousness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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