单词 | androgynary |
释义 | androgynaryadj. Botany. rare. Designating a type of double flower (see double adj.1 1d) in which both stamens and pistils are developed into petals. ΚΠ 1818 Ann. Philos. 11 334 With respect to the compound flowers, they may be stamens, or pistils;..androgynary, those in which the transformation is produced upon both the organs of fructification without the integuments being altered. 1941 M. E. O'Hanlon Fund. Plant Sci. vii. 104 The peony and other flowers in which both stamens and pistils are developed into petals are distinguished as androgynary..flowers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1818 |
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