Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, in the Linnean artificial system of classification, a class of plants characterized by having flowers with five stamens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Bot.) A Linnæan class of plants having five separate stamens.
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(F) The cyclamen is thQ fozv-lfreaJ m botany; a genus of the pentandria mOnogynia clafs of plants.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1780
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THE Medlar Tree (Mefplhs) is An - gular in its production of a large apple and pear-fhaped brown fruit, not eatable until it affumes a flate of decay; for while it remains firm and found it is exceedingly auftere •, but ripening in Au - tumn, becomes foft and palatable in Winter; the tree belongs to the clafs and order Icofandria pentandria: Twenty or more ftamina, and five flyles, in each flower.
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"Nicotiana, the tobacco plant is a genus of plants of the order of Monogynia, belonging to the pentandria class, order
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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