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from The Century Dictionary.

To strip of flowers; deflower.
In botany: Having lost its flowers: said of a plant
Having shed its pollen: said of an anther.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

adjective (Bot.) Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen.

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adjective botany Past the flowering state.

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