Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, united by the edges into a ring, as the anthers of Compositæ, etc.; also (said of stamens or of flowers), having the anthers so united.
- In ornithology, syndactyl, as the foot of a kingfisher. See cut under
syndactyl .
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- adjective botany
synantherous
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The soil is clayey, and thinly bestrewed with alpine grass, intermingled with syngenesious and cruciferous plants.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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