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from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having the petals united only through their cohesion to the base of a column of united stamens, as in the mallow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having the
petals held together bystamens , which grow to theirbases , as in themallow .
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