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Webster 1913 Edition

Polyandria

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Polˊy-an′dri-a

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Noun.
pl.
[NL. See
Polyandry
.]
(Bot.)
A Linnæan class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.

Definition 2024

Polyandria

Polyandria

See also: polyandria

Translingual

Proper noun

Polyandria

  1. (obsolete) A former botanical class of plants whose flowers had twenty or more stamens.

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English

Noun

polyandria

  1. plural of polyandrium

Etymology

From greek poly-many and andros-men, referring to multiple stamens.

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