Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

homoecious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ho-moe-cious
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the same host during the entire life cycle.

adj

A plant species having only hermaphroditic flowers (also known as bisexual or perfect flowers), that is those with both carpels (female) and stamens (male).

Example Sentences

"Further, we use homoecious to describe angiosperms with only bisexual flowers. This is an alternative state to heteroecious and complements monoecious and dioecious."
"Cryptanthus has been divided into two subgenera: (1) Cryptanthus, comprising andromonoecious plants, i.e. plants which harbour both hermaphroditic and male flowers on the same plant, and (2) Hoplocryptanthus Mez with homoecious plants (i.e. with hermaphroditic flowers only)"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “identical”) + οἰκία (oikía, “house, family, tribe”), equivalent to hom- + -oecious.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Prefix: hom-
Root: ὁμός
Suffix: -oecious

Frequently Paired Words

cladautoicous dioecious monoecious synoecious trimonoecious

Synonyms

autoecious

Questions

What does homoecious mean?: Having the same host during the entire life cycle.
Where does homoecious come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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