Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In bot., containing only two seeds: applied to fruits and their cells.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Containing only two seeds; two-seeded.
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- adjective botany Having only
two seeds .
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Senra, which like Sturtia, has the foliola of its three-leaved involucrum distinct and entire, differs from it in having its calyx 5-fid with sharp sinuses, in the absence of glands, in the reduced number of stamina, and in its dispermous ovaria.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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