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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the adhesion of the sepals of a flower to the petals.
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= Adhesion of the sepals to the petals = is spoken of by Morren as calyphyomy, [Greek: kalyx phyomai.] [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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