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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having the filaments of a flower united into two groups.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having stamens united in two sets by their filaments, the sets being equal or unequal; grouped together in two sets: as, diadelphous stamens. In papilionaceous flowers, out of ten stamens nine are often united, while one (the posterior one) is free. Also diadelphian.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Having its stamens fused together at least partly by the filaments so that they form two separate bundles, or a bundle and a lone separate stamen.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[di– + Greek adelphos, brother.]

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