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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
polygyny . - One of the orders in the fifth, sixth, twelfth, and thirteenth classes of the Linnean system, comprehending those plants which have flowers with more than twelve styles or stigmas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Bot.) A Linnæan order of plants having many styles.
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