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‖ Tetragynia, a. Bot.|tɛtrəˈdʒɪnɪə|
[mod.L., f. tetra- + Gr. γυνή woman, female, taken in sense ‘female organ, pistil’.]
The name of an order or division in many of the classes of the Linnæan Sexual System of plants, comprising those having four pistils. Hence ˈtetragyn (rare), a plant of this order; tetraˈgynian, tetraˈgynious, teˈtragynous adjs., belonging to this order of any class; having four pistils.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. viii. (1765) 92 Tetragynia, comprehending such Plants as have four Styles. 1828Webster, Tetragyn..in botany, a plant having four pistils. Tetragynian, having four pistils. 1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Tetragynius,..tetragynious. 1899Syd. Soc. Lex., Tetragynous, having a gynecium of four carpels. Mod. Ilex, the Holly, is an example of Tetrandria, Tetragynia. |