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trioicous

trioicous is the alternative spelling of trioecious.

Meaning of trioecious

Adjective

trioecious (not comparable)

  1. Having male (staminate), female (pistillate), and bisexual flowers on the same plant (also known as "polygamous"), like Fraxinus excelsior
  2. (obsolete) Belonging to the former Linnaean order Trioecia, consisting of plants of this type.
  3. Having three sexes: male, female and hermaphrodite, as some nematodes.

Questions about trioicous

What is trioicous the alternative spelling of?
Trioicous is the alternative spelling of trioecious.

Words near trioicous in the dictionary

  1. triodontid
  2. triodontids
  3. trioecious
  4. trioecism
  5. trioecy
  6. trioicous
  7. triok
  8. triokinase
  9. trioks
  10. triol
  11. Triola

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trioicous (page history and authors); trioecious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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