Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Shaped like a small bottle, or like an ascidian.

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  • Inferred ancestral features include more than two whorls (or series) of tepals and stamens, stamens with protruding adaxial or lateral pollen sacs, several free, ascidiate carpels closed by secretion, extended stigma, extragynoecial compitum, and one or several ventral pendent ovule (s).

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