monoecious

English

Alternative forms

• monecious, monœcious, monoicous

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, solitary; mono-”) +‎ οἶκος (oîkos, “house, dwelling-place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈniː.ʃəs/
• Rhymes: -iːʃəs

Adjective

monoecious (not comparable)

1. (botany, invertebrate) Having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual, either in different flowers or in the same or different flowers; hermaphrodite.
   • 1978, A. J. E. Smith, “Cytogenetics, Biosystematics and Evolution in the Bryophyta”, in H. W. Woolhouse, editor, Advances in Botanical Research, volume 6, page 247:

     Further, species which show continuous variation that is not amenable to orthodox taxonomic treatment, and this is the situation in many monoecious plants, are treated as invariable.

   • 1997, LeRoy Holm, Jerry Doll, Eric Holm, Juan Pancho, James Herberger, World Weeds: Natural Histories and Distribution, page 398:

     Recently, monoecious plants have been found in several places in the United States. The plants of Australia are monoecious and dioecious.

   • 1999, Monica A. Geber, Gender and Sexual Dimorphism in Flowering Plants, page 70:

     Two factors are likely to allow the establishment of forms with reduced pollen output (i.e., fewer male flowers) in a monoecious population: increased seed fitness as a result of an increase in the ratio of female to male flowers, and a reduced rate of self-fertilisation.

Coordinate terms

• bisexual
• cladautoicous
• dioecious
• synoecious
• trimonoecious

 

Related terms

• monoecy

 

Translations

having the male and female reproductive organs on different parts of the same plant

• Catalan: monoeci
• German: monözisch (de), einhäusig (de)
• Hebrew: חד־ביתי (had-beiti)
• Hungarian: egylaki (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: enbo, enbu, monoik

  Nynorsk: einbu, einebu, monoik

• Vietnamese: đồng chu

See also

• Plant reproductive morphology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia