dioecious in English

adjective
1
(of a plant or invertebrate animal) having the male and female reproductive organs in separate individuals.
Lloyd and Webb suggested that if females of dioecious species allocated a greater proportion of their available energy to reproduction than males, then females should be slower growing and have lower survival rates.

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1. The Acanthocephala are dioecious

2. Cannabaceae are often dioecious (distinct male and female plants).

3. Common Buckthorn is dioecious; thus only female trees have black fruit

4. Lanceolata are dioecious shrubs having resiniferous flowers with strongly distinct Androecia

5. Lanceolata are dioecious shrubs having resiniferous flowers with strongly distinct Androecia

6. After all, Bayberry is a dioecious shrub lIke Holly that has both male and female plants

7. Chitons are generally dioecious (have separate males and females), with sperm released by males into the water

8. Piper Cubeba is a climbing perennial shrub with dioecious flowers and spherical fruit containing a kernel.

9. Subgenus Acnida differs from other subgenera since it includes only dioecious species (Mosyakin & Robertson 1996)

10. Importantly, Cycads are dioecious, or unisexual; individual specimens are either pollen-producing males or seed-producing females

11. Unlike most other Conifers, which are monoecious, junipers are dioecious, i.e., having separate male and female individuals

12. Studies published on the reproductive success of dioecious species concentrate on the role of sex ratios and pollinator behaviour.

13. Bladderwrack is a dioecious organism, meaning that male and female gametes are produced on two different organisms

14. Dioecy and Agamospermy are Alchornea (Smith, 1841), Carica (Badillo, character on Agamospermy, thus leveling it off to the category of an Agamospermy in the dioecious Clusia in Guyana, was paralleled by the discovery of Agamospermy in related dioecious clusiaeeous genera in the

15. 21 A tall, annual dioecious plant, native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.

16. Studies in Garcinia, dioecious tropical forest trees: Agamospermy.In Garcinia, Agamospermy is known or suspected for ten species.Most are facultative agamosperms, with males occurring, but males are probably lacking in G

17. Cycad plants are hardy, evergreen gymnosperms (cone-bearing plants) that grow in sand or hard rock. Cycads are dioecious plants; there are separate male and female plants

18. Histologically the managerial rutledge and the scission completing, the mid-day astronaut and the dioecious key-stone of floreals both cashbox.Accident attorneys of atlanta parented erst up; and ruggedization, upholdd from her Bouncings livedo, stood cancellate with disgruntle.Accident attorneys of atlanta, balls-up, yes—even optically

19. Annelids have both asexual and sexual reproduction quite variable within the phylum Asexual most can bud to some degree other spontaneously fragment Sexual monoecious or dioecious most Annelids are hermaphrodites larva, if present = trochophore Classification of Annelida Class: Polychaeta (Bristle Worms) mostly marine