trioecious

Meaning

Adjective

  • Having male (staminate), female (pistillate), and bisexual flowers on the same plant (also known as "polygamous"), like Fraxinus excelsior
  • Belonging to the former Linnæan order Trioecia, consisting of plants of this type.
  • Having three sexes: male, female and hermaphrodite, as some nematodes.

Origin

  • tri-- + --oecious

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