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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, the stalk attached to the pollenmasses of orchideous plants.

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

  • noun (Bot.) A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.

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  • noun botany A slender, elastic process to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.

Etymologies

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Diminutive of Latin cauda ("tail, appendage").

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