Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Related; in botany, having stamens united by their filaments into sets: used mostly in composition, as in
monadelphous , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens. Usually in composition.
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- adjective botany Having
coalescent orclustered filaments .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Antiochensibus tous kata Surian kai Kilikian adelphous comprehensos videmus, ver.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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[2071] Matt.x. 37, with adelphous added perhaps from Luke xiv.
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_ "[Greek: _Nomiz adelphous tous alaethinous philous_] Menander."
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844
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[Greek: Ex archês humin ethos esti touto, pantas men adelphous poikiôs euergetein, ekklêsiais te pollais tais kata pasan polin ephodia pempein
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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Rhômaiôn proestôs Biktôr athroôs tês Asias pasês hama tais homorois ekklêsiais tas paroikias apotemnein hôsan heterodoxousas, tês koinês henôseôs peiratai, kai stêliteuei ge dia grammatôn, akoinônêtous pantas ardên tous ekeise anakêruttôn adelphous].
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
hernesheir commented on the word adelphous
Railroad telegraph shorthand for "advance on cost and charges. --US Railway Assn. Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 19, 2013