Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a diœcious manner; with a tendency to diœciousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb (Biol.) In a diœcious manner.
- adverb (Bot.) having flowers structurally perfect, but practically diœcious, -- those on one plant producing no pollen, and those on another no ovules.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb biology In a
dioecious manner.
Etymologies
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dioecious + -ly
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Examples
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It would take up too much space to show the various steps, through dimorphism and other means, by which the separation of the sexes in plants of various kinds is apparently now in progress; but I may add that some of the species of holly in North America, are, according to Asa Gray, in an exactly intermediate condition, or, as he expresses it, are more or less dioeciously polygamous.
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