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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.
In warmer countries monoecious and dioecious grasses are more frequent.
Protogyny and protandry are the underlying mechanisms favouring allogamy in monoecious palms.
Common ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia L., is a monoecious wind-pollinated annual plant belonging to the Asteraceae family that comes from North America.
This monoecious species has male flowers occurring in catkins and female flowers occurring in clusters.
Herbs caulescent, stout to cushion-like, annual or perennial, rarely shrubs, monoecious, gynodioecious, or dioecious.

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