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dioecious
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di·oe·cious or di·e·cious (d-shs)
adj.
Of or relating to organisms, especially plants, having the male and female reproductive organs borne on separate individuals of the same species; sexually distinct.
dioecious.
See diecious.


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The New Zealand geoduck exhibits functional protandric dioecy with all geoducks first maturing males and a significant proportion of individuals changing sex to females as they age (Gribben & Creese 2003).
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Sex Determination As a group, molluscs exhibit highly diverse modes of sexual reproduction, ranging from functional, simultaneous hermaphroditism to sequential hermaphroditism, to strict dioecy and genic determination (Coe 1943, Guo & Allen 1994b).
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