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Where does “gynodioecious” come from?

gynodioecious (English) comes from English diœcious, from English -oecious, from English -ous, from Middle English -ous, from Old French -us, from Latin -ōsus, from Old Latin -ōssus.

gynodioecious (English): dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or...

Definitions

  1. dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or...

Ancestry of “gynodioecious”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdiœciousAlternative spelling of dioecious
2English-oeciousForms adjectives describing the arrangement of...
3English-ousUsed to form adjectives from nouns, to denote...
4Middle English-ous—
5Old French-us-ous, used for forming adjectives
6Latin-ōsus—
7Old Latin-ōssus—
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