Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having the petals and stamens arising immediately from the torus or thalamus; belonging to or characteristic of the Thalamifloræ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Bearing the
stamens directly on thereceptacle .
Etymologies
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See thalamus, and floral.
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Examples
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They both start from a thalamifloral condition, then become corollifloral, G. purpurea at first resembling G. lutea and G. campestris, an Ophelia, and then specialise to the Ptychantha and Stephanantha forms respectively.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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They both start from a thalamifloral condition, then become corollifloral, G. purpurea at first resembling G. lutea and G. campestris, an Ophelia, and then specialise to the Ptychantha and
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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