Definitions for dioecious

dioecious di·oe·cious

Spelling: [dahy-ee-shuh s]
IPA: /daɪˈi ʃəs/

Dioecious is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 201 anagrams from letters in dioecious (cdeiioosu).

Definitions for dioecious

adjective

  1. (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.

Origin of dioecious

1740-50; New Latin Dioeci(a) a class name (di- di-1 + Greek oikía a house, dwelling, spelling variant of oîkos) + Examples for dioecious

The tree is dioecious, bearing male catkins on one plant, female on another.

The tree is dioecious, there being separate male and female trees.

Shrubs, with monoecious or dioecious flowers in catkins, and aromatic foliage.

A conspicuous example of a dioecious plant is the common aucuba, of which for years only the female plant was known in Britain.

The plants are dioecious, the males forming higher, more erect and robust trunks than the females.

In warmer countries monoecious and dioecious grasses are more frequent.

Those trees are dioecious, you know, like us, and she isn't mated.

In dioecious plants we must aim at the reproduction of brothers and sisters.

Spinifex, a dioecious grass, is widespread on the coasts of Australia and eastern Asia, forming an important sand-binder.

Many modifications in details occur, and the plants may be dioecious.

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