Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having a single instead of a double perianth: applied to flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.
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- adjective botany Having a single
floral envelope , that is, acalyx without acorolla , or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.
Etymologies
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In what are termed monochlamydeous flowers both calyx and corolla are wanting, as in
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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These form the perianth and are in one series, when the flower is termed monochlamydeous, or in two series (dichlamydeous).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Diclinous or monochlamydeous plants owe their imperfect conformation to suppression, and may become structurally complete by a species of peloria.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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