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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A natural order of plants, sometimes shrubs or trees, nearly related to the Cruciferæ, from which they differ in having six or more stamens which are not tetradynamous, the pod without a partition and often stalked, and kidney-shaped seeds with a coiled embryo.

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