dioecious

ADJECTIVE
  1. having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals
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How To Use dioecious In A Sentence

  • Pulmonates are dioecious and hermaphroditic as are prosobranchs, but pulmonates develop directly (there is no larval form).
  • The papaya is an interesting example of a tree that can be perfect, monoecious, or dioecious. 5. How plants live and grow
  • In some dioecious species, sex determination is controlled by genes on sex chromosomes.
  • Examples include dioecious species where only one sex is present.
  • Ginkgo trees, like some conifers and cycads, are dioecious, producing pollen and seeds on separate trees.
  • Consider a population of dioecious species, in which males mate randomly with females.
  • Lloyd and Webb suggested that if females of dioecious species allocated a greater proportion of their available energy to reproduction than males, then females should be slower growing and have lower survival rates.
  • Sexually the species are structurally gynodioecious, but there is a strong tendency towards dioecism with apparently bisexual flowers often being functionally unisexual.
  • The botanist explained this to his companions, by saying that these were the male plants, and the growing ones the females; for hemp is what is termed by botanists "dioecious" -- that, is, having male flowers on one plant, and female ones upon another. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
  • Most species are hermaphroditic, 9% are dioecious, and 9% are monoecious. Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests
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