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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having six similar parts or divisions.
  • adjective Botany Having flower parts, such as petals, sepals, and stamens, in sets of six.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Divided into six segments; consisting of six parts.

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

  • adjective (Bot.) In six parts; in sixes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany In six parts; occurring in sixes.

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Ancient Greek

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