Synoecious

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

• synÅ“cious

Origin

- + oecious + -

Full definition of synoecious

Adjective

1. (botany) With male and female organs in the same structure.
• 1980, Anthony John Edwin Smith & Ruth Smith, The moss flora of Britain and Ireland^{http://books.google.com/books?id=XIHeScGztrIC}

• Occasional plants of var. viridulus have a synoecious inflorescence but are otherwise typical of the variety.
1. unisex
• 1972, M. G. Bicchieri, Hunters and gatherers today: a socioeconomic study of eleven such cultures^{http://books.google.com/books?id=MEi0AAAAIAAJ}

• The segmentation of the band is expressed in the arrangement of huts and shelters in synoecious camps; households comprising a segment are clustered close together, but are still an integral part of the whole camp.