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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In botany, a stamineal column, usually formed by a union of the filaments, as in the Malvaceæ and in many genera of Leguminosæ.
  2. n. In zoology, the branch of a gonoblastidium of a hydrozoan which bears male gonophores; a generative bud or medusiform zooid in which the male elements only are developed, as distinguished from a gynophore or female gonophore. See gynophore, and cut under gonoblastidium.
  3. n. A stalk supporting an andrœcium.

Wiktionary

  1. n. botany A support or column on which stamens are raised.
  2. n. zoology The part which, in some Siphonophora, bears the male gonophores.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A support or column on which stamens are raised.
  2. n. (Zoöl.) The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

Etymologies

  1. Ancient Greek, from words meaning "man" and "to bear". (Wiktionary)

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