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 and female organs in the same structure.
  • 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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