dioecious

• “The botanist explained this to his companions, by saying that these were the male plants, and the growing ones the females; for hemp is what is termed by botanists "dioecious" -- that, is, having male flowers on one plant, and female ones upon another.”

  The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains

• “It is moneocious, which indeed Jacquin, by whom the genus was established, concluded it to be, although first described as dioecious by Gaertner, whose account has been adopted, probably without examination, by”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “Unionidae are dioecious, meaning they have separate sexes.”

  Freshwater mussels in North America - factors affecting their endangerment and extinction

• “But unlike most tree species common in the U.S., the ginkgo is dioecious, meaning trees are male or female.”

  Laudator Temporis Acti

• “Clams reproduce sexually and like most mollusks they are hermaphroditic although some soft shelled clams are dioecious, meaning they have distinct genders”

  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]

• “Clams reproduce sexually and like most mollusks they are hermaphroditic, although some soft shelled clams are dioecious, meaning they have distinct genders.”

  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]

• “Ginkgos are dioecious, meaning they are found with two separate sexes (either female or male).”

  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]

• “In 1812, Konrad Sprengel first wrote about dioecious (separate-sexed) plants that produce pollen abundantly.”

  The Washington Post: Amid the heat wave, gardeners still have questions

• “Examples are that almonds have been eaten since the Bronze Age and may have originated in Persia; birch trees were probably the first trees to restore land scraped bare by glaciers; ginkgos are prehistoric dioecious trees that, through fossil record, predate conifers.”

  The Washington Post: Books to help plant gardening ideas

• “Most species are hermaphroditic, 9% are dioecious, and 9% are monoecious.”

  Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests

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