Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being diœcious. Also diœcism, diecism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The state or quality of being diœcious.
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- noun biology The state or quality of being
dioecious .
Etymologies
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diœcious + -ness
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Examples
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a tendency to a dioecious structure, but seeing the difference in the fertility of the two forms, I felt bound unwillingly to admit that they might be a step towards dioeciousness; I allude to this subject in my Linum paper.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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