Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having perfect and female flowers upon separate plants. See
diœcious , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Diœcious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany
dioecious , but having somehermaphrodite or perfectflowers on anindividual plant which bears mostlypistillate flowers
Etymologies
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gyno- + dioecious
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Examples
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Specific transcription profiles of mitochondrial genes were associated with specific mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in a natural population of a gynodioecious species S. vulgaris.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Hosam Elansary 2010
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Previous studies have shown that the gynodioecious plant species Silene vulgaris exhibits high mitochondrial diversity and occasional paternal inheritance of mitochondrial markers.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Hosam Elansary 2010
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