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What does monoecious mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) That has male and female reproductive organs on the same individual plant (rather than on separate individuals), either in different flowers or in the same or different flowers
  2. (biology) Hermaphroditic.
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Now monoecious trees occur in the endangered species list more than you would expect by chance.
There are about twice as many monoecious and dioecious species in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago as there are in angiosperms as a whole.
Common ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia L., is a monoecious wind-pollinated annual plant belonging to the Asteraceae family that comes from North America.
Asparagus plants are monoecious meaning each individual plant is either male or female.
Herbs caulescent, stout to cushion-like, annual or perennial, rarely shrubs, monoecious, gynodioecious, or dioecious.
This monoecious species has male flowers occurring in catkins and female flowers occurring in clusters.

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