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1. (adj.) dioecious
(esp. of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
Etymology: (1740–50; < NL Dioeci(a) a Linnaean class of plants having this feature)
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1. (adj) dioecious, dioecian
having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals
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1. (adj) dioecious
having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious
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