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Meaning of "dioecy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DIOECY

dioecy  [daɪˈiːsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIOECY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dioecy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DIOECY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dioecy

Dioecy is a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms or colonies, meaning that a colony contains only either male or female individuals. Dioecious reproduction is biparental reproduction.

Definition of dioecy in the English dictionary

The definition of dioecy in the dictionary is the state of being dioecious.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIOECY


classy
ˈklɑːsɪ
controversy
ˈkɒntrəˌvɜːsɪ
creasy
ˈkriːsɪ
dalasi
dəˈlɑːsɪ
darcy
ˈdɑːsɪ
Debussy
dəˈbjuːsɪ
fleecie
ˈfliːsɪ
fleecy
ˈfliːsɪ
glassy
ˈɡlɑːsɪ
gramercy
ɡrəˈmɜːsɪ
grassy
ˈɡrɑːsɪ
horsey
ˈhɔːsɪ
juicy
ˈdʒuːsɪ
Kesey
ˈkiːsɪ
Lucy
ˈluːsɪ
mercy
ˈmɜːsɪ
non-greasy
ˌnɒnˈɡriːsɪ
Percy
ˈpɜːsɪ
saucy
ˈsɔːsɪ
Tbilisi
təbɪˈliːsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIOECY

dinucleotide
Dio Cassius
Dio Chrysostom
diobol
diocesan
diocese
Diocletian
diode
Diodorus Siculus
dioecious
dioeciously
dioeciousness
dioecism
dioestrus
Diogenes
dioicous
dioicously
dioicousness
diol
diolefin

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIOECY

accuracy
agency
Annecy
antisecrecy
currency
diplomacy
emergency
esnecy
fancy
frequency
Lake Annecy
legacy
nancy
policy
privacy
prophecy
secrecy
secy
self-fulfilling prophecy
supersecrecy

Synonyms and antonyms of dioecy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dioecy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIOECY

Find out the translation of dioecy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
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Translator English - Chinese

雌雄异株
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dioecia
570 millions of speakers

English

dioecy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dioecy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

dioecy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

dioecy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dioicia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dioecy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dioécie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dioecy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dioecy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

dioecy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

dioecy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dioecy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dioecy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dioecy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दॉइसी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dioecy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dioecy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dioecy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

dioecy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dioecy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Διοικία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dioecy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dioecy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dioecy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dioecy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIOECY»

The term «dioecy» is used very little and occupies the 166.938 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIOECY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dioecy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dioecy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dioecy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIOECY»

Discover the use of dioecy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dioecy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Gender and Sexual Dimorphism in Flowering Plants
(1992) and Cronquist's (1988) classifications of flowering plants, dioecy appeared more commonly among the more basal groups of both monocots and dicots. For example, the Magnolianae of Thorne (containing many of the same families as ...
Monica A. Geber, Todd E. Dawson, Lynda F. Delph, 1999
2
Encyclopedia of Genetics
Distribution and evolution of dioecy in flowering plants (Figure 1) Although it is infrequent in plants, dioecy is widely distributed. Perhaps as many as half of all flowering plant families have some dioecious members (Charlesworth, 1985; ...
Eric C.R. Reeve, 2014
3
Evolution of Dioecy from Distyly in the Genus Cordia ...
Pollen-stigma reactions in five species of section Varronia, show a strong self-incompatibility system in the species with the largest flowers.
Maria Elizabeth Munoz Mendoza, 2007
4
Evolutionary Ecology : Concepts and Case Studies: Concepts ...
Dioecy Sex expression in flowering plants can vary at the level of the flower, the individual plant, or the population, resulting in a bewildering diversity of systems and terminology. Individual flowers may be hermapbroditic (perfect), male ...
Charles W. Fox Associate Professor of Entomology University of Kentucky, Derek A. Roff Professor of Biology University of Kentucky, Riverside Daphne J. Fairbairn Professor of Biology both at The University of California, 2001
5
Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Reproductive Strategies
As Barrett (2003) emphasized, the Sagittaria data are fully consistent with the outbreeding hypothesis for the evolution of dioecy. What are the correlates of dioecy and do they give clues about its evolutionary history? Although the dioecious ...
Tom de Jong, Peter Klinkhamer, 2005
6
The Evolution of Sex
D Hermaphroditism, monoecy and dioecy in plants The hermaphrodite condition is primitive in higher plants, monoecy and dioecy having arisen independently on many occasions from hermaphrodite ancestors. The advantages of ...
John Maynard Smith, 1978
7
Diversity and Evolutionary Biology of Tropical Flowers
6.1 Sex expression: bisexual and unisexual flowers, monoecy and dioecy Bisexual (hermaphrodite, perfect) flowers are predominant in the angiosperms but there is also a large number of groups with unisexual flowers. There are also many ...
‎1996
8
Evolution and Speciation of Island Plants
Carlquist (1974) opined that dioecy appears to have evolved in situ in some genera on Hawaii, although Bawa (1980) claimed that many species of the same genera were also dioecious elsewhere. Autochthonously evolved dioecy on islands ...
Tod F. Stuessy, Mikio Ono, 2007
9
Principles of Plant Breeding
The most obvious of the outbreeding devices that require genetic diversity among individuals is, of course, dioecy (staminate and pistillate flowers borne on different individuals). Dioecy is clearly an outbreeding device because, when absolute ...
Robert Wayne Allard, 1999
10
The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals
Advantages of Dioecy Dioecy precludes self-fertilization and, in the botan- ical literature, dioecy is seen primarily as a mecha- nism to avoid inbreeding (or promote outcrossing) (e.g., Charlesworth 2001, 2006; Delph & Ashman 2006; Ashman ...
Janet Leonard, Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIOECY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dioecy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Sex Regulation By RNA Scissors
"In the future, we may be able to breed dioecy into new species and facilitate hybrid production through exploitation of a natural system.". «Asian Scientist Magazine, Nov 14»
2
Plants have sex, and many even have sex chromosomes
... (having male and female sex organs on the same plant), and 25 percent exhibiting dioecy (having separate male plants and female plants). «Genetic Literacy Project, Nov 14»
3
What makes a persimmon a boy or a girl?
Only about 5 percent of plant species have separate sexes, a condition called dioecy, or “two houses.” “Think of it as nature's best trick to ... «Futurity: Research News, Oct 14»
4
Science casts light on sex in the orchard
"In the future, we may be able to breed dioecy into new species and facilitate hybrid production through exploitation of a natural system.". «Science Codex, Oct 14»
5
Sexual Evolution May Bear More Fruit In The Orchard
“In the future, we may be able to breed dioecy into new species and facilitate hybrid production through exploitation of a natural system.”. «Growing Produce, Oct 14»
6
Institution: Google Indexer
Due to the dioecy, rareness, and short life of the wild papaya, disturbances in its natural habitat could constrain the reproductive success of populations by ... «Am J Botany, Jul 14»
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Sexual systems, (the arrangements of sexual organs on different flowers and/or individuals) and in particular the evolution of dioecy (population with female and ... «Am J Botany, Mar 13»
8
Berlin Goes Nuts over Rare Palm Fruit
Biologists call that dioecy, from the Greek for "two households." The female plants, which bear the giant seeds, grow to be about 25 meters tall. «Spiegel Online, Jan 12»
9
Qatar's breakthrough research on palm trees
... purposes, but also to promote basic date palm studies, which have been hindered by dioecy and long generation times," Malek said. «gulfnews.com, May 11»
10
The curious chromosomes of a curious fruit
... two linked genes on the putative Y chromosome are responsible for dioecy: one suppressing pistil formation and one for pollen development. «EurekAlert, Mar 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Dioecy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/dioecy>. Apr 2024 ».
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