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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of dicotyledonous gamo-petalous plants, of the natural order Selagineæ, characterized by a subhyaline calyx in the form of a spathe split down on one side, and a four-lobed corolla split to the middle of the tube in front.

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