† polyadelphn.
Botany. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
In the Linnaean artificial system: a plant of the class Polyadelphia.
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male1548
hermaphrodite1728
androgyne?1796
gynander1828
monogyn1828
octander1828
pentagyn1828
pentander1828
polyadelph1828
polygam1828
polygamian1828
tetradynamian1828
tetragyn1828
syngenese1836
bisexual1879
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Polyadelph, in botany, a plant having its stamens united in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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