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  • adjective (Bot.) Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare calycifloral and thalamifloral.

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  • adjective botany Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx.

Etymologies

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See corolla and floral.

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Examples

  • They both start from a thalamifloral condition, then become corollifloral, G. purpurea at first resembling G. lutea and G. campestris, an Ophelia, and then specialise to the Ptychantha and Stephanantha forms respectively.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • They both start from a thalamifloral condition, then become corollifloral, G. purpurea at first resembling G. lutea and G. campestris, an Ophelia, and then specialise to the Ptychantha and

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

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