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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, the entire suppression of stamens and pistils within the perianth.

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

  • noun (Bot.) The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.

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