Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, a barren transformed stamen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A sterile transformed stamen.

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  • noun botany A sterile transformed stamen.

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Ancient Greek, scale: compare French lépale.

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