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‖ Monadelphia Bot.|mɒnəˈdɛlfɪə|
[mod.L. (Linnæus 1735), f. Gr. µόνος one + ἀδελϕ-ός brother + -ia1.]
The sixteenth class in the Linnæan Sexual System, comprising plants with hermaphroditic flowers having the stamens united in one bundle.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Monadelphia,..a class of plants whose stamina or male parts, by reason of their filaments running in among one another, are all formed into one body. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. ix. (1794) 92 In the sixteenth class, called monadelphia, the filaments are united so as to form one regular membrane at bottom.
Hence ˈmonadelph, a plant of this class; monaˈdelphian a. = next. (1828–32 Webster.) |