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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, an epithet used by Lindley to express the relation to a species of its abnormal forms when they are sufficiently habitual to have been taken for distinct plants. Thus, the assumed genus of orchids Aclinia is now regarded as an isophorous form of Dendrobium.

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