diœcious
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "…several of the Medusæ, probably all, are diœcious…"
- "Low, creeping, heath-like shrubs, with small, crowded, entire, evergreen, leaves, and minute, axillary, diœcious flowers."
- "These berries will remain from December to July, that is, about eight months of the year. The Aucuba is diœcious. About a hundred years ago a traveller first brought some of these evergreens to England…"
- "Heads many-flowered ; the flowers all tubular, perfect and similar, or rarely imperfectly diœcious. Scales of the ovoid or spherical involucre imbricated in many rows, tipped with a point or prickle."
- "Scalibregma inflatum is diœcious, and not hermaphrodite, as described by Danielssen. The gonads are formed by proliferation of the cells covering the septum by which the nephrostome is attached to the body-wall."