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Gonophore :: Gonophore (n.) A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner..

Oligandrous :: Oligandrous (a.) Having few stamens.

Dichogamy :: Dichogamy (n.) The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves..

Callyciflorous :: Callyciflorous (a.) Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

Isostemonous :: Isostemonous (a.) Having exactly as many stamens as petals.

Icosandria :: Icosandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx..

Gynophore :: Gynophore (n.) The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower..

Orchidaceous :: Orchidaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidaceae) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred spec

Pin-eyed :: Pin-eyed (a.) Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of thrum-eyed..

Heterogamous :: Heterogamous (a.) The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster..

Dioecia :: Dioecia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.

Staminate :: Staminal (a.) Of or pertaining to stamens or stamina; consisting in stamens.

Obdiplostemonous :: Obdiplostemonous (a.) Having twice as many stamens as petals, those of the outer set being opposite the petals; -- said of flowers..

Diadelphous :: Diadelphous (a.) Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).

Dodecandrous :: Dodecandrous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen..

Neuter :: Neuter (n.) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers..

Triadelphous :: Triadelphous (a.) Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.

Petalody :: Petalody (n.) The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals..

Insertion :: Insertion (n.) The condition or mode of being inserted or attached; as, the insertion of stamens in a calyx..

Androus :: androus () A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens..

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