Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The nineteenth class of plants in the sexual system of Linnæus, the Compositæ of the natural system, the name alluding to their united anthers, which thence are now called
syngenesious .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Bot.) A Linnæan class of plants in which the stamens are united by the anthers.
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Examples
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So the various stamina of the class of syngenesia have been accustomed to contract together in the evening, and thence if you stimulate any one of them with a pin, according to the experiment of M. Colvolo, they all contract from their acquired associations.
Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868
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The journey was performed in large sledges drawn by ten dogs over snow-free rounded hills and hill-plateaus covered with a rather scanty vegetation, and through valleys treeless as the mountains, but adorned with luxuriant vegetation, rich in splendid lilies, syngenesia, umbellifera, &c.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Whereas in Shakspeare, the play is 'syngenesia;' each character has, indeed, a life of its own, and is an 'individuum' of itself, but yet an organ of the whole, as the heart in the human body.
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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So the various stamina of the class of syngenesia have been accustomed to contract together in the evening, and thence if you stimulate one of them with a pin, according to the experiment of M. Colvolo, they all contract from their acquired associations.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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