monadelphous
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əˈdɛl adjective Botany.
1.
(of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
2.
(of a plant or flower) having the stamens so united.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | (of stamens) having united filaments forming a tube around the style |
| 2. | (of flowers) having monadelphous stamens |
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Monadelphous
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| monadelphous (mŏn'ə-děl'fəs, mō'nə-) Pronunciation Key
Related to stamens whose filaments are united into a single tubelike group. The stamens of flowers of leguminous plants are often monadelphous. |
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There are eight monadelphous stamens fused to the style.
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