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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, a term applied by Morren to the division of organs that are normally entire, or their separation if normally united.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

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  • noun botany The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually whole.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek unfettered.

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