kenos

In those cases where an imperfect perianth exists, but in which the stamens and pistils are entirely suppressed, Morren applies the term Cenanthy, [Greek: kenos], empty.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

{Pheugein dê ton Erôta kenos ponos.} -- _Archias_.

Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age 1888

Further, the embryonic phenomena sometimes reproduce ancestral forms, and they are then called PALINGENETIC (from palin = again): sometimes they do not recall ancestral forms, but are later modifications due to adaptation, and they are then called CENOGENETIC (from kenos = new or foreign).

The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

Cenogenesis = foreign or negligible development (kenos and genea); hence, those phenomena which come later in the story of life to disturb the inherited structure, by

The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

{phainetai moi kenos isos theoisin emmen oner, ostis enantios toi izanei, kai plasion adu phoneusas upakouei kai gelosas imeroen}.

The Symposium 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

Sappho’s famous ode: phainetai moi kenos isos theoisin emmen oner, ostis enantios toi izanei, kai plasion adu phoneusas upakouei kai gelosas imeroen.

Symposium 2007