Relating to or characterized by dioecia; describing plants or organisms that have separate male and female individuals.
Derived from 'dioecia' with the English suffix '-an' added to create an adjective form describing the condition or characteristic of being dioecious.
Dioecian plants face a challenge that hermaphroditic plants don't: they must expend energy attracting pollinators to reach their mate, making them generally less common in wind-pollinated species but more prevalent in insect-pollinated plants.
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