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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rare monstrosity in flowers, in which the placenta with its ovules is protruded from an orifice in the ovary.
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To this condition the Belgian savant gave the name of gymnaxony. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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