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- proper noun obsolete A former
botanical class ofplants whoseflowers had twenty or morestamens
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Polyandria, Polygynia, &c.) than in other plants with a smaller number of parts, and which are more or less adherent one to the other.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Polyandria -- Calophyllum inophyllum_) (Tagálog, _Dangcalán_), is greatly appreciated for crooks and curves, but as a rule cannot be found of suitable dimensions for large vessels.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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