"monoecious" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /məˈniː.ʃəs/
Rhymes: -iːʃəs Etymology: From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, solitary”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house, dwelling-place”), equivalent to mono- + -oecious. Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|-}} Ancient Greek, {{af|grc|μόνος|οἶκος|nocat=1|t1=alone, solitary|t2=house, dwelling-place}} μόνος (mónos, “alone, solitary”) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house, dwelling-place”), {{affix|en|mono-|-oecious}} mono- + -oecious Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} 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. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Botany Synonyms: monecious, monœcious, monoicous Related terms: monoecy Coordinate_terms: bisexual, cladautoicous, dioecious, synoecious, trimonoecious Translations (having the male and female reproductive organs on different parts of the same plant): monoeci (Catalan), monoïque (French), monözisch (German), einhäusig (German), חד־ביתי (had-beiti) (Hebrew), egylaki (Hungarian), monoika (Ido), enbo (Norwegian Bokmål), enbu (Norwegian Bokmål), monoik (Norwegian Bokmål), einbu (Norwegian Nynorsk), einebu (Norwegian Nynorsk), monoik (Norwegian Nynorsk), đồng chu (Vietnamese)

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