Hermaphrodite vs Monoecious - What's the difference?
hermaphrodite | monoecious |
An individual or organism possessing ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.
A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
(nautical) A hermaphrodite brig.
Having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.
Combining two opposing qualities.
(botany) That has male and female reproductive organs on the same individual plant (rather than on separate individuals), either in different flowersHickey, M. & King, C. (2001), The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms'', Cambridge University Press or in the same or different flowersBeentje, Henk. (2010), ''The Kew Plant Glossary , Richmond, Surrey: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ISBN 978-1-84246-422-9
* 1978 , A. J. E. Smith, Cytogenetics, Biosystematics and Evolution in the Bryophyta'', H. W. Woolhouse (editor), ''Advances in Botanical Research , Volume 6,
* 1997 , LeRoy Holm, Jerry Doll, Eric Holm, Juan Pancho, James Herberger, World Weeds: Natural Histories and Distribution ,
* 1999 , Monica A. Geber, Gender and Sexual Dimorphism in Flowering Plants ,
(biology) Hermaphroditic.
As adjectives the difference between hermaphrodite and monoecious
is that hermaphrodite is having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads while monoecious is that has male and female reproductive organs on the same individual plant (rather than on separate individuals), either in different flowers or in the same or different flowers.As a noun hermaphrodite
is an individual or organism possessing ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.hermaphrodite
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(wikipedia hermaphrodite)Noun
(en noun)- An earthworm is a hermaphrodite .
Usage notes
* * is now the preferred term for human description. * Compare (m) and genderqueer.Synonyms
* maphrodite, morphodite, mophrodite (slang) * androgyne * gynandromorph *Derived terms
(terms derived from hermaphrodite) * false hermaphrodite * herm / * hermaphrodism * pseudohermaphroditeAdjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* androgynous * hermaphroditic * intersexSee also
* berdache, two-spirit * genderqueer ----monoecious
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Alternative forms
* * moneciousAdjective
(-)page 247,
- Further, species which show continuous variation that is not amenable to orthodox taxonomic treatment, and this is the situation in many monoecious plants, are treated as invariable.
page 398,
- Recently, monoecious' plants have been found in several places in the United States. The plants of Australia are ' monoecious and dioecious.
page 70,
- Two factors are likely to allow the establishment of forms with reduced pollen output (i.e., fewer male flowers) in a monoecious population: increased seed fitness as a result of an increase in the ratio of female to male flowers, and a reduced rate of self-fertilisation.