Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as Monœca.

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Examples

  • A fungus called Puccinia monoica lives inside mustard plants that grow on the slopes of Colorado mountains.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • A fungus called Puccinia monoica lives inside mustard plants that grow on the slopes of Colorado mountains.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • A fungus called Puccinia monoica lives inside mustard plants that grow on the slopes of Colorado mountains.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • However, the few areas that still contain moist forest assemblages also termed "Tropical Evergreen Forest" are characterized by tall trees reaching up to 30 meters (m), where the dominant species are: Mayan breadnut (Brosimum alicastrum), sapodilla (Manilkara zapota), rosadillo (Celtis monoica), Bursera simaruba, Dendropanax arboreus, and Sideroxylon capiri.

    Veracruz moist forests 2008

  • In the state of San Luis Potosí, the trees are even taller than in Tamaulipas, although with the same dominant species in the canopy (e.g. Brosimum alicastrum and Celtis monoica).

    Veracruz moist forests 2008

  • Juncus maritimus, Salvadora persica, Sporobolus spicatus, Sporobolus robustus, Suaeda monoica and Triplocephalum holstii.

    East African halophytics 2007

  • This form, which appears to have been recognized only by its author, is said to differ from 8. monoica chiefly in its longer oogonial branches, which are coiled in a Digitized by Google WITH NOTES ON OTHBR SPBOIBS.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

  • It should bear his name, but for the fact that that name had previously been applied by Pringsheim ( '60) to S. monoica attacked by Chytridiaceous para - sites; and this previous use of the name, although it can stand only as a synonym, should debar its further use, in the interest of clearness and accuracy.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

  • Having found S. monoica and S. ferax to be well marked and constant before meeting with this species, I was for some time skeptical concerning it, thinking it might have originated in a mixture of those two.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

  • Engl. Commiphora rostrata Engl. Commiphora schimperi (O. Berg) Engl. Corchorus olitorius L. Corchorus trilocularis L. Cordia monoica Roxb.

    Chapter 7 1999

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