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Monoecious vs. Synoecious — What's the Difference?

Monoecious vs. Synoecious — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Monoecious and Synoecious

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Monoecious

(Botany) Having unisexual reproductive organs or flowers, with the organs or flowers of both sexes borne on a single plant, as in pines and corn (maize).

Synoecious

(botany) With male and female organs in the same structure.

Monoecious

(Biology) Relating to or exhibiting hermaphroditism; hermaphroditic.

Synoecious

Unisex

Monoecious

Having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual, either in different flowers or in the same or different flowers; hermaphrodite.
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Synoecious

Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.

Monoecious

Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; - opposed to diœcious.

Synoecious

Having male and female reproductive organs mixed in the same gametoecium

Monoecious

Having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal

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