Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having all the filaments united into a single tubelike group. Used of stamens.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having the stamens united into one set by their filaments; belonging or relating to the class Monadelphia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having all its
stamens within a flower fused together at least partly by thefilaments .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Organs originally free and distinct become ultimately combined at the base by the gradual protrusion from the receptacle of a ring or tube under them, as in the stamens of _Leguminosæ_; yet, says Mr. Bentham, no one would propose to describe the staminal tube of monadelphous
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Buchenau [409] mentions a flower of _Lotus uliginosus_ in which there were eleven stamens, namely, two free and nine monadelphous; and
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Stamens monadelphous, dividing into 7 filaments above.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Stamens 10, monadelphous, the 5 shorter ones bearing each a small gland on the outer surface of the base.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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