Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having stamens and pistils in separate flowers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having only stamens or pistils: applied to unisexual flowers.
  • In crystallography, same as diclinic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers.

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  • adjective botany, dated unisexual.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having pistils and stamens in separate flowers

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[di– + Greek klīnē, bed, couch; see klei- in Indo-European roots + –ous.]

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Examples

  • The unusual development of the sexual organs in diclinous flowers has been alluded to under the head of heterogamy, and other cases where the symmetry of the flower is rendered regular, by the development of parts ordinarily suppressed, will be found in the chapters relating to deviations from the usual number of organs.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • Very many, perhaps all, diclinous flowers may, under certain conditions, become perfect, at least structurally.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • Pinus is also peculiar in the dimorphism of shoots and leaves and in their constant interrelations with the diclinous flowers.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • Flowers diclinous, the pistillate taking the place of long shoots, the staminate taking the place of dwarf shoots.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • Mor - phologically sexual reproduction by oospores developed in typically globular oagouia, one or more from the entire protoplasm of each oogonium; antheridia on branches of androgynous or diclinous origin, very rarely on the oogonial branch, uniting with all, or with only a part of the oiigonia, or in several species wholly absent; when present, usually producing fertilization tubes which remain closed, at least in some species.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

  • Antheridia clavate, one, or rarely more, on each oogonium, usually arising just below its basal wall, rarely of diclinous origin.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

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