Crossword-Solution: MONOECIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Monoecious | a. | Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to dioecious. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “MONOECIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| having separate male and female flowers on the same plant | 1 answer |
| FLOWER, type of | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
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greedy person
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Sentences with MONOECIOUS (5)
Overworked as you are, I dare say you will say that I am an odious plague; but here is another suggestion! I was led by one of my wild speculations to conclude (though it has nothing to do with geographical distribution, yet it has with your statistics) that trees would have a strong tendency to have flowers with dioecious, monoecious or polygamous structure.
Therefore, on the great principle of "Nature not lying," I fully expected that trees would be apt to be dioecious or monoecious (which, as pollen has to be carried from flower to flower every time, would favour a cross from another individual of the same species), and so it seems to be in Britain and New Zealand.
Can it be, then, that this is really an [andro-monoecious] species?--part of the flowers male, others truly hermaphrodite.
Though these plants are monœcious, and therefore do not require castration, yet I should have suspected some accident in the manipulation, had not Gärtner expressly stated that he had during many years grown these two varieties together, and they did not spontaneously cross; and this, considering that the plants are monoecious and abound with pollen, and are well known generally to cross freely, seems explicable only on the belief that these two varieties are in some degree mutually infertile.
The following cases are worth giving, as they relate to monoecious forms, which do not require, and consequently cannot have been injured by, castration.