Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having ten stamens.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the Linnaean class of plants Decandria
- adjective botany Having
ten stamens
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Examples
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Rutaceous-looking decandrous thorny tree, with foliis bijugis.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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_Combretum_ presents several points in common with Rhamneae; valvate calyx, and tendency to want of petals; to Elaeagneae in calyx and furfuraceous scales; a decandrous Rhamneae would differ but little in flowers from Combretum.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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In explaining the preceding appearances, to prevent confusion we called those parts which form the cone in the middle of the flower Antheræ, but strictly speaking they are not such, the true Antheræ being situated on the inside of their summits, where they will be found to be ten in number, making in fact the Apocynum a decandrous plant.
The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772
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