Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
digynian .
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- adjective botany Of or relating to the Digynia; having
two styles .
Etymologies
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Compare French digyne.
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Examples
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Its fruit had a weak, peppery taste. 35 The rare ENCHYLOENA TOMENTOSA formed a shrub a foot high, loaded with yellow berries: all the specimens were digynous, in which it differed from the description of Brown.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The rare ENCHYLOENA TOMENTOSA formed a shrub a foot high, loaded with yellow berries: all the specimens were digynous, in which it differed from the description of Brown.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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