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from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
bicarpellary .
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Advance has been along two lines, markedly in relation to insect-pollination, one of which has culminated in the hypogynous epipetalous bicarpellate forms with dorsiventral often large and loosely arranged flowers such as occur in Scrophulariaceae, and the other in the epigynous bicarpellate small-flowered families of which the Compositae represent the most elaborate type.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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