monoecious

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/mɒˈniːʃəs/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(mə nē′shəs)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
mo•noe•cious  (mə nē′shəs),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. Developmental Biology[Biol.]having both male and female organs in the same individual; hermaphroditic.
  2. Botany(of a plant, species, etc.) having the stamens and the pistils in separate flowers on the same plant.
Also, monecious. 
  • Neo-Latin (Linnaeus) Monoeci(a) name of the group comprising monoecious plants (equivalent. to Greek mon- mon- + oîk(os) house + Neo-Latin -ia -ia) + -ous
  • 1755–65
mo•noe′cious•ly, adv. 
mo•noe′cism  (mə nē′siz əm),USA pronunciation mo•noe′cy, n. 
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
monoecious, monecious / mɒˈniːʃəs/monoicous / mɒˈnɔɪkəs/
  1. (of some flowering plants) having the male and female reproductive organs in separate flowers on the same plant
  2. (of some animals and lower plants) hermaphrodite

Compare dioeciousEtymology: 18th Century: from New Latin monoecia, from mono- + Greek oikos house
'monoecious' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
andromonoecious - diclinous - dioecious - gynomonoecious - homothallic - monecious - monoicous - pistillate - staminate

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