Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, a wasting disease; atrophy, marasmus, or consumption.
- noun In. botany, an abnormal condition of flowers, in which the anthers become defective and the pollen becomes inert or wanting.
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Examples
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a mention of the Ericaceæ being subject to contabescence of the anthers.
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845
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Gaertner and other writers have spoken of this defective condition as contabescence. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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