dioecious
Meaning of dioecious
adjective
(of a plant or invertebrate animal) having the male and female reproductive organs in separate individuals.
mid 18th century: from modern Latin Dioecia (a class in Linnaeus's sexual system), from di-1 ‘two’ + Greek -oikos ‘house’.
Information about dioecious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of dioecious
dioe-cious
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- dioecious is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
dioecious synonyms
Meaning dioecian:
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