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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, same as pleiomorphism
  • noun In vegetable teratol, the state of a normally irregular flower when it becomes regular by the increase in the number of its irregular elements. It is due to an excessive development. Compare peloria. Also spelled pleomorphy.

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