Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having different members unlike in color; also, having the florets of the center or disk different in color from those of the circumference or ray: applied to a flower-head in the Compositæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the central florets of a flower head of a different color from those of the circumference.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having the central
florets of aflower head of a different colour from those of thecircumference .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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