Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having pistils and stamens in the same flower.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in the same flower.
- In geology, monoclinal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany
bisexual .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having pistils and stamens in the same flower
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin monoclīnus : mono– + Greek klīnē, bed; see klei- in Indo-European roots.]
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