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from The Century Dictionary.

  • One of the orders in the fifth, sixth, twelfth, and thirteenth classes of the Linnean system, comprehending those plants which have flowers with more than twelve styles or stigmas.
  • noun Same as polygyny.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Bot.) A Linnæan order of plants having many styles.

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