The botanical condition of being diclinous; the arrangement of reproductive organs in separate flowers or plants rather than together.
From Greek 'di-' (two) and 'cline.' Formed as a noun to describe the state of having separated sexual organs in plants. Standard botanical terminology from the 1800s.
Dicliny appears in some of the oldest flowering plants discovered in the fossil record, suggesting that separating male and female functions may have been an early evolutionary strategy for making sure plants could only reproduce through genetic mixing!
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