Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having three stamens: as, a triandrous flower.
- Same as
triandrian .
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Examples
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The _third_ and the _fourth glumes_ are longer than the second glume, 5 - to 7-nerved, paleate and triandrous; _palea_ of both are lanceolate with ciliate keels.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The third and the fourth paleate and triandrous and sometimes the former is empty.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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_O. aranifera_ with a triandrous column, seemingly of the same kind as that spoken of by Dr. Gray.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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It may here be mentioned that _Isochilus_ is normally triandrous.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In _Dendrobium normale_, Falconer, not only is the perianth regular, but the column is triandrous, [443] the three stamens
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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August, 1843, a specimen of _Ophrys apifera_ with a triandrous column, the supernumerary anthers belonging, apparently, to the inner whorl.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Its spikelets are flat, and the florets of an oval form and triandrous, imbricate.
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Beer likewise has put on record the existence of a triandrous _Cattleya_. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Mr. Moggridge met with a triandrous flower in the same species, and refers the appearance to "a fusion of two flowers, accompanied by suppression and modification." [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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