Di*e"cian (?), a., Di*e"cious, (), a. Bot.

See Diecian, and Diecious.

 

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Di*e"cian (?), Di*e"cious (?), a. Biol.

Having the sexes in applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monecious.

 

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