(of some flowering plants) having the male and female reproductive organs in separate flowers on the same plant
2.
(of some animals and lower plants) hermaphrodite
Compare dioecious
Derived forms
monoeciously (moˈnoeciously) or moneciously (moˈneciously)
adverb
Word origin
C18: from New Latin monoecia, from mono- + Greek oikos house
Examples of 'monoicous' in a sentence
monoicous
The rate of fruiting specimens was higher in monoicous (3:1) than dioicous ones.
Sylvia Mota de Oliveira, Kátia Cavalcanti Pôrto 1998, 'Reprodução sexuada em musgos acrocárpicos do Estado de Pernambuco, Brasil Sexual reproductionin acrocarpous mosses of Pernambuco State, Brazil', Acta Botânica Brasílicahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33061998000400007. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Lastly, walnut-trees, which are properly monoicous, sometimes entirely fail to produce male flowers.
Charles Darwin The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. 1 (1868). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)