dioicous
/daɪˈɔɪkəs/
adjective
- Having male and female reproductive structures on separate plants (used especially for mosses and some other non-flowering plants).
- In dioicous mosses, you need both a male and a female plant to produce spores.
- Gardeners growing dioicous plants must ensure they have at least one plant of each sex for reproduction.
- The botanist explained that this species is dioicous, so the male and female plants look different.
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