homoecious
homoecious adjective: having the same host during the entire life cycle.
Adjective
homoecious (not comparable)
- Having the same host during the entire life cycle.
- A plant species having only hermaphroditic flowers (also known as bisexual or perfect flowers), that is those with both carpels (female) and stamens (male).
- Further, we use homoecious to describe angiosperms with only bisexual flowers. This is an alternative state to heteroecious and complements monoecious and dioecious.1995, R. W. Cruden, R. M. Lloyd, “Embriophytes have equivalent sexual phenotypes and breeding systems: why not a common terminology to describe them?”, in American Journal of Botany, volume 82...
- Cryptanthus has been divided into two subgenera: (1) Cryptanthus, comprising andromonoecious plants, i.e. plants which harbour both hermaphroditic and male flowers on the same plant, and (2) Hoplocryptanthus Mez with homoecious plants (i.e. with hermaphroditic flowers only)2017, G. A. S. Cruz et al, “M olecular phylogeny, character evolution and historical biogeography of Cryptanthus Otto & A. Dietr. (Bromeliaceae)”, in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, volume...
Origin of homoecious
From Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “identical”) + οἰκία (oikía, “house, family, tribe”), equivalent to hom- + -oecious.
Questions about homoecious
- What does homoecious mean?
- Homoecious means having the same host during the entire life cycle.
- What part of speech is homoecious?
- Homoecious is an adjective.
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