teratological

• This is a teratological growth that needs a quick and deep burial. —  Marry in Massachusetts
• Considered as a teratological phenomenon, union admits of being grouped into several subdivisions, such as Cohesion, Adhesion, Synanthy, Syncarpy, Synophty, &c.; Each of these subdivisions will be separately treated, but it maybe here said that, in all or any case, the degree of fusion may be very slight, or it may be so perfect that there may be a complete amalgamation of two or more parts, while to all outward appearance the organ may be single. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• [28] This is an exaggerated degree of that fusion which exists normally in Salix monandra_, in Cucurbits and other plants Cohesion of the pistils= is also of very frequent occurrence in plants, under ordinary circumstances, but is less commonly met with than might have been expected as a teratological phenomenon Further details relating to cohesion of the various parts of the flower are cited in Moquin-Tandon, 'El. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• A similar alternation may be observed occasionally as a teratological occurrence, though it is not easy to account for it Illustration: FIG. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• If we exclude instances of fasciation, i.e. where several branches are fused together and flattened, we must admit that this flattening does not occur very often as a teratological appearance Mr. Rennie figures and describes a root of a tree which had become greatly flattened in its passage between the stones at the bottom of a stream, and had become, as it were, moulded to the stones with which it came into contact. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

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