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In medicine, a wasting disease; atrophy, marasmus, or consumption.
In. botany, an abnormal condition of flowers, in which the anthers become defective and the pollen becomes inert or wanting.

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Gaertner and other writers have spoken of this defective condition as contabescence. [ — Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Anther (see connective), contabescence of, 463 morphology of, 291 ovuliferous, 200 petalody of, 291 sutures of, 291 — Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
a mention of the Ericaceæ being subject to contabescence of the anthers. — The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844

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= French contabescence; as contabescent + -ce: see -ence.

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