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from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having the stamens more or less coalescent in three sets: said of an andrœcium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See
Illust. underadelphous .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having its
stamens fused together at least partly by thefilaments so that they form three separate groups, some of which may contain a lone stamen.
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