Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers, each on different plants; pertaining to the order Triœcia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having three sorts of flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Triœcia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having
three sorts offlower on the same or on differentplants , some of the flowers beingstaminate , otherspistillate , and others both; belonging to theorder Tricia .
Etymologies
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tri- + Ancient Greek house.
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