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octamerous, a. Nat. Hist.|ɒkˈtæmərəs|
Also octomerous |-ˈɒm-|.
[f. Gr. ὀκταµερ-ής in eight parts (µέρος part) + -ous.]
a. Bot. Having the parts of the flower in series of eight. (Often written 8-merous.)
b. Zool. Having the radiating parts or organs eight in number, as an actinoid zoophyte.
1864Webster, Octamerous (Bot.), having the parts in eights. Gray. 1875Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 565 Pentamerous flowers and..those which are truly tetramerous (or octamerous). 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. iii. 159 The finally hexamerous Anthozoon passes through a tetramerous and an octomerous stage.
So ocˈtamerism, the state of being octamerous (humorously, the state of being in eight parts).
1873Whitney Orient. Stud. 133 Announced..to form eight volumes..perhaps the estimated octamerism of the work was meant to be understood in some peculiar sense. |