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‖ Monogamia Bot.|mɒnəʊˈgeɪmɪə, -ˈgæmɪə| [mod.L. (Linnæus) use of late L. monogamia ‘single marriage’, monogamy.] The sixth order in the nineteenth class (Syngenesia) in the Linnæan Sexual System, comprising species which bear solitary flowers (not collected in a capitulum) in which the anthers are united. Not now recognized as an order in any system.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. iii. (1765) 81 Monogamia. 1807J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 400 Linnæus has a 6th Order in this [sc. the 19th] Class, named Monogamia, consisting of simple flowers with united anthers; but this I have presumed to disuse, because [etc.]. Hence monoˈgamian a.1, pertaining to this order.
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