Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, same as
pleiomorphism - noun In vegetable teratol, the state of a normally irregular flower when it becomes regular by the increase in the number of its irregular elements. It is due to an excessive development. Compare
peloria . Also spelledpleomorphy .
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These latter cases, then, are due to an excess of development, hence the application of the term pleiomorphy.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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