Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
-     See 
synæcious . - In botany: Having male and female flowers in one head, as is common in the Compositæ.
 - Having male and female organs in the same receptacle, as many mosses.
 
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.
 
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany  With 
male andfemale organs in the samestructure . - adjective   
unisex  
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having male and female reproductive organs mixed in the same gametoecium
 
Etymologies
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syn- + -oecious
			
		
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