Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
synæcious . - In botany: Having male and female flowers in one head, as is common in the Compositæ.
- Having male and female organs in the same receptacle, as many mosses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.
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- adjective botany With
male andfemale organs in the samestructure . - adjective
unisex
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having male and female reproductive organs mixed in the same gametoecium
Etymologies
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syn- + -oecious
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