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

  • adjective Botany Having unisexual reproductive organs or flowers, with the organs or flowers of both sexes borne on a single plant, as in pines and corn (maize).
  • adjective Biology Relating to or exhibiting hermaphroditism; hermaphroditic.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany:
  • In phanerogams, having the stamens and pistils in different flowers on the same plant.
  • In cryptogams, having both male and female organs on the same individual.
  • In zoology, having both male and female sexual organs; hermaphrodite; androgynous: applied according to the corresponding usage in botany: opposed to diœcious.

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

  • adjective (Biol.) Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to diœcious.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Having the male and female reproductive organs on different parts (e.g. different flowers) of the same plant rather than on separate plants (of the same species)
  • adjective biology hermaphroditic

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

  • adjective having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal
  • adjective having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal

Etymologies

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

[New Latin Monoecia, class name : mono– + Greek oikiā, dwelling; see weik- in Indo-European roots.]

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mono- + -oecious

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