Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of two kinds: in botany, applied to a calyx with several series of sepals, of which the inner are more or less petaloid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Of two kinds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of two kinds.
- adjective botany Partaking of two
natures , as theperianth of someendogenous plants , where the outer surface iscalycine and the innerpetaloid .
Etymologies
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Latin ambo both + genus kind.
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