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Unisex vs Synoecious - What's the difference?

unisex | synoecious |

As adjectives the difference between unisex and synoecious

is that unisex is designed to be suitable to both sexes while synoecious is with male and female organs in the same structure.

unisex

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Designed to be suitable to both sexes.
  • Not distinguished on the basis of sex.

    • synoecious

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany) With male and female organs in the same structure.
  • *1980 , Anthony John Edwin Smith & Ruth Smith, The moss flora of Britain and Ireland [http://books.google.com/books?id=XIHeScGztrIC], page 192:
  • *:Occasional plants of var. viridulus have a synoecious inflorescence but are otherwise typical of the variety.
  • unisex
  • *1972 , M. G. Bicchieri, Hunters and gatherers today: a socioeconomic study of eleven such cultures [http://books.google.com/books?id=MEi0AAAAIAAJ], page 309:
  • *:The segmentation of the band is expressed in the arrangement of huts and shelters in synoecious camps; households comprising a segment are clustered close together, but are still an integral part of the whole camp.