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from The Century Dictionary.

  • An order of plants in several of the classes in the Linnean system, comprehending those plants which have four pistils, as the holly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Bot.) A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.

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