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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Gamopetalous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having the petals united; gamopetalous. See
monopetalous , and cut undercorolla .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the petals united; gamopetalous.
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- adjective botany
gamopetalous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel
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_Ledum_, and _Monotropa_ among the sympetalous heaths, are a remarkable instance of this.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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