Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having pistils and stamens in the same flower.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in the same flower.
  • In geology, monoclinal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany bisexual.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having pistils and stamens in the same flower

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin monoclīnus : mono– + Greek klīnē, bed; see klei- in Indo-European roots.]

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