Usually means: Separate male and female plants.
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  1. dioecism: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dioecism: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dioecism: Wordnik
  4. Dioecism, dioecism: Dictionary.com
  5. Dioecism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Dioecism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Dioecism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. dioecism: Free Dictionary
  9. Dioecism: Dictionary/thesaurus
  10. dioecism: Wiktionary

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  1. dioecism: Encyclopedia

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  2. dioecism: Medical dictionary

(Note: See dioecious as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dioecism)

noun:  The devolution of a city into its formerly subordinate constituents, the opposite of synoecism.
noun:  (biology, botany) The condition of being dioecious.

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