Definition of Digynous

1. having part of the petal duplicated [adj]

Medical Definition of Digynous

1. Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles. Origin: Cf. F. Digyne. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Digynous

digressional
digressionary
digressions
digressive
digressively
digressiveness
digs
digs out
digs up
diguanide
diguanides
diguanidinobutanase
diguanylate cyclase
digynia
digynian
digynous (current term)
dihadron
dihalide
dihalides
dihdroxyindole-carboxylic acid oxidase
dihedra
dihedral
dihedral angle
dihedral angles
dihedrals
dihedron
dihedrons
dihematoporphyrin ether
diheterabenzene

Literary usage of Digynous

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

1. Peter Parley's Cyclopedia of Botany: Including Familiar Descriptions of by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1838)
"Female: scales in a conical cone, bracteate at base, digynous; ... Female : scales imbricated in a round cone, bracteate at base, digynous; ..."

2. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"... Digitate (fingered), where the leaflets of a compound leaf are all borne on the apex of the petiole, 58. digynous ..."

3. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"... digynous in the pistillate spike. Palcie convolute, scarious and obtuse at the apex ; the lower one rigid, ovate-lanceolate, 9-12- nerved above ..."

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