Definition of Didynamy

1. the state of having four stamens in pairs of unequal length [n -MIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Didynamy

diductions
didy
didya
didym
didym-
didymalgia
didymium
didymiums
didymo
didymosphenia geminata
didymous
didymus
didynamia
didynamies
didynamous
didynamy (current term)
die
die-cast
die-hard
die-hard(a)
die-off
die-offs
die-sinker
die away
die back
die down
die hard
die in the arse
die off

Literary usage of Didynamy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory by George Bentham (1869)
"... cither by the didynamy of the stamens or by the bilabiate aestivation of the corolla, or, in most cases, by both characters. ..."

2. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"... as it shows no tendency to didynamy, but it us rather one of those exceptional anomalies such as that observable in ..."

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