pentandrous
/pɛnˈtandrəs/Botany
adjective
Originally: †designating or belonging to the Linnaean class or order Pentandria (obsolete ). In later use: having five stamens.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in John Hill (bap. 1714, d. 1775), physician and actor. From penta- + -androus, after scientific Latin pentandrus.
- hook
- hookah
- hook and eye
- hook-and-ladder truck
- hookbait
- hooked
- hooker
- Hooker, John Lee
- Hooke, Robert
- Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
- Hooke's law
- hookey
- hookless
- hooklet
- hook-like
- hook, line, and sinker
- hook nose
- hook-nosed
- Hook of Holland
- hook-shaped
- hook shot
- hook someone/thing up
- hooktip
- hook up
- hookworm