MONADELPHOUS

Etymology

Adjective

monadelphous (not comparable)

(botany) Having all its stamens within a flower fused together at least partly by the filaments.

Usage notes

• Said of either a flower or of a plant bearing such flowers.

Source: Wiktionary


Mon`a*del"phi*an, Mon`a*del"phous, a. Etym: [Cf. F. monadelphie.] (Bot.)

Definition: Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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