trimonoecious

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adjective

That has male, female and bisexual (perfect) flowers on the same individual plant.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivetrimonoecious (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyThat has male, female and bisexual (perfect) flowers on the same individual plant.

    Finally, there is the trimonoecious group, which has a mixture of staminate, pistillate, and hermaphroditic flowers all on the same plant.

    1989, Ib Libner Nonnecke, Vegetable Production, page 509
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    Six different sex forms have been reported in C.^([Cucumis]) melo, i.e., monoecious, andromonoecious, gynomonoecious, hermaphrodite, trimonoecious, and gynoecious (Poole and Grimball 1939).

    1998, J. M. Alvarez, “Chapter 24: Muskmelon”, in S.S. Banga, S.K. Banga, editors, Hybrid Cultivar Development, page 516

    Individual plants are either hermaphrodites (all flowers are hermaphrodites), monoecious (both male and female flowers), andromonoecious (male and hermaphrodite flowers), gynomonoecious (female and hermaphrodite flowers) or trimonoecious (all three types of flowers).

    2002, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arnould, translated by Tiiu Ojasoo, Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution, page 137

    Trivedi and Roy (1973) have reported the appearance of various intermediate sex forms such as andromonoecious, gynoecious, and trimonoecious in colchicine-treated plants of M. charantia, but remaining as diploids.

    2011, T. K. Behera, K. Joseph John, L. K. Bharathi, R. Karuppaiyan, “Chapter 10: Momordica”, in Chittaranjan Kole, editor, Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Vegetables, page 226

    Synonyms: polygamous, polygamomonoecious

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveThat has male, female and bisexual (perfect) flowers on the same individual plant.

Origin

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