Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having four stamens in two pairs of unequal length.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, in two unequal pairs: applied to flowers having four stamens in two unequal pairs, as most Labiatœ, etc.; specifically, belonging to the class Didynamia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four
stamens disposed inpairs of unequal length.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Chatin [470] alludes to a similar reduction in _Tropæolum_, while in flowers that are usually didynamous absence of two or more of the stamens is not unfrequent, _e. g._ in
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In other cases the variations in size are of a less general character, and affect certain organs of a whorl in a relative manner, as, for instance, in the case of didynamous or tetradynamous stamens, where two or four stamens are longer than their fellows, the long or short stamens and styles of di - and tri-morphic flowers, &c.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Among normally didynamous plants such numerical restitution, so to speak, is not unusual; thus, in _Veronica_ four and five stamens occur.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Stamens didynamous, straight, longer than the corolla.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Stamens didynamous, their lower parts grown to the tube of the corolla.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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