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Definition of Diandrous
1. n. Of or pertaining to the class Diandria; having two stamens.
Definition of Diandrous
1. Adjective. (botany) Of or pertaining to the class Diandria; having two stamens. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diandrous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Diandrous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Diandrous
Literary usage of Diandrous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"... consisting of a single awned palea; the upper flower perfect, of 2 palese,
diandrous, nearly equal, short, awnless.—Panicle contracted or spike-like. ..."
2. Spicilegium Neilgherrense, Or, a Selection of Neilgherry Plants: Drawn and by Robert Wight (1851)
"... in place of diandrous furnished a good distinguishing, though very artificial,
character, as being opposed to others of nearly equal value. ..."
3. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... the fifth (posterior) stamen, and in diandrous flowers the adjacent pair also,
not rarely represented by sterile filaments or rudiments : rarely the 4 ..."
4. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"creeping; leaves lance-oval, entire, acute, glabrous, somewhat silky beneath ;
stipules none, aments appearing before the leave«, ovate, diandrous ; scales ..."
5. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"294 a;), belonging generally to the inner androecial whorl, but sometimes apparently
to the outer: in the diandrous Orchids (eg Cypripedium, Fig. ..."
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