Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a termination meaning having male organs or stamens, as in monandrous, diandrous, triandrous, polyandrous, etc., having one, two, three, or many stamens, and gynandrous, having stamens situated on the pistil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Bot.) A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate
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The ironical pessimism of Thomas Hardy is as false as the sentimental optimism of Walter Besant or the miso-androus meliorism of Sarah Grand.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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