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from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, touching the breast, as of an insect: noting those zygomorphous flowers, especially adapted for crossfertilization by external aid, in which the stamens and styles are so arranged as to strike the visiting insect on the breast. Compare nototribe, pleurotribe.
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