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Definition of Monadelphous
1. Adjective. (botany) Having all its stamens within a flower fused together at least partly by the filaments. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monadelphous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Monadelphous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Monadelphous
Literary usage of Monadelphous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"alternate 5 with shorter and versatile ones. Pod somewhat flattened, monadelphous,
dimorphous, 5 with longer and ..."
2. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Stamens usually monadelphous, hypogynous, twice or thrice as many as the petals.
Fruit formed of 5 carpels cohering round the axis, having a membranous ..."
3. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1844)
"Stamens 10, monadelphous, 5 short, 5 very long and more exterior, subulate, longer
than the styles, slightly downy. Anthers oval. ..."
4. An Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"Stamens 10, alternate ones shorter than the rest; filaments monadelphous from
the base to about the middle. Stigmas 3, sessile, in a head- Seeds inserted in ..."
5. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"Stamens numerous, monadelphous, the column pilose. Anthers purplish, bursting by
one cell ; pollen yellow. Style crowned by numerous stigmas. ..."
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