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and female colonies, scarcity or absence of males.

The term dioecy is inapplicable to bryophytes because it refers to the sexuality of vascular plant sporophytes. Nonetheless dioecy and dioicy are comparable in many respects.

Etymology

The words dioicous and di(o)ecious are derived from ????? or ????? and ??- (di-), twice, double. ((o)e is the Latin way of transliterating Greek ??,

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