monoecious

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
monoecious /məˈniːʃəs/

▶adjective Biology (of a plant or invertebrate animal) having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual; hermaphrodite. Compare with dioecious.

– derivatives
monoecy noun.

– origin C18: from mod. L. Monoecia (denoting a class of such plants in Linnaeus's system), from Gk monos ‘single’ + oikos ‘house’.

'monoecious' also found in these Oxford entries:

dioecious

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