Diœcious

Full definition of diœcious

Adjective

1. Alternative spelling of dioecious
• 1878: George Bentham, Handbook of the British flora, p415 (Brook)Low, creeping, heath-like shrubs, with small, crowded, entire, evergreen, leaves, and minute, axillary, diÅ“cious flowers.
• 1879: Asa Gray, Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, p273 (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & co.)Heads many-flowered ; the flowers all tubular, perfect and similar, or rarely imperfectly diÅ“cious. Scales of the ovoid or spherical involucre imbricated in many rows, tipped with a point or prickle.
• 1927: Arthur Everett Shipley, Juan Rivera Reyes, J. Antonio Gil Conca, and Spain Servicio de Publicaciones Agrícolas, Desinfección y procedimientos higiénicoterapéuticos de los granos y sus…, volume 72, p302 (Ministerio de Fomento)Scalibregma inflatum is diÅ“cious, and not hermaphrodite, as described by Danielssen. The gonads are formed by proliferation of the cells covering the septum by which the nephrostome is attached to the body-wall.