Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
stamineous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of stamens or threads.
- adjective (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the stamens; possessing stamens; also, attached to the stamens.
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Examples
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Here, therefore, is a symmetrical and complete, regular, but dimerous orchideous flower, the first verticil of stamens not antheriferous, the second antheriferous, the carpels alternate with these; and here we have clear (and perhaps the first direct) demonstration that the orchideous type of flower has two stamineal verticils, as Brown always insisted. "
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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