Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, same as
polypetalous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having separate petals; polypetalous.
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- adjective botany Having
separate petals ;polypetalous .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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In the case of polypetalous, or rather dialypetalous flowers, the petals may be very largely increased by multiplication, as in roses, anemones, pinks, &c. In the last-named genus the number is often so much increased that the calyx splits from the tension exercised on it by the increasing mass within.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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