dioecious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals
    dioecian.

WordNet


Di*oe"cian, Di*oe"cious adjective (Also<
  • Dioecian
  • Dioecious
)
Definitions
  1. (Biol.) Having the sexes in 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.

Webster 1913