Castrated. Obsolete except in Botany.

Belonging to the class Syngenesia; having the stamens united by their anthers.

= pentandrous, adj.

Originally: †designating or belonging to the Linnaean class or order Pentandria (obsolete). In later use: having five stamens.

Botany. Originally: †(in the Linnaean artificial system) designating, characteristic of, or belonging to the class Polyandria (obsolete). Later…

Of stamens: partially united by their filaments into three or more groups. Formerly also: †(in the Linnaean artificial system) characteristic of or…

= triandrian adj.

Botany. = polyandrous, adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

Relating to or characteristic of the former Linnaean class Gynandria, which comprised plants having gynandrous flowers.

Of stamens: having the filaments united below to form one set or tube. Of filaments: united in this way.

Botany. Of a flower: (originally) belonging to or having the characteristics of the Linnaean class Monandria; (now) having a single stamen.

having four equal stamens; belonging to the class Tetrandria.

Situated around the ovary; spec. (of stamens) inserted (together with the petals and sepals) around, rather than above or below, the ovary, i.e…

Having eight stamens.

arising from or inserted on the sides of the ovary.

Situated below the pistils or ovary; said of the stamens of a flower when these grow on the receptacle and are not united to any other organ…

= icosandrous adj.

= octandrous, adj.

= pentandrous, adj.

characteristic of or belonging to the class Polyadelphia.

(a) adj. = tetradynamous adj.; (b) n. a plant of the class Tetradynamia.

having six (equal) stamens.

(of stamens) arranged in five groups; (of a plant) having the stamens so arranged.

of or pertaining to this class; having four longer and two shorter stamens.

Of stamens: United by the filaments into three bundles. Of a plant: Having the stamens so united.

= triandrian adj.

belonging to the class Icosandria.

Of or belonging to the Corollifloræ, a sub-class of dicotyledonous plants in de Candolle's classification having calyx and corolla, the petals…

Botany. Said of the stamens or other parts of the flower when numerous and not clearly multiples of the number of the petals, etc.

having a small number of stamens; = oligostemonous adj.

having diadelphous stamens with the same number in each bundle.

Belonging to the sub-class Thalamifloræ of dicotyledons, in which the stamens are inserted on the thalamus or receptacle; hypogynous.

Having the shape or form of a phalanx (of a digit).

= polyandrous, adj.

Designating flowers in which the stamens are attached alternately to the petals and the torus.

in same sense.

Diplostemonous with the disposition of the two stamen-whorls reversed; having the stamens of the outer whorl opposite the petals and those of…

= hypogynous, adj.

= octandrous, adj.

= monadelphous, adj.

Botany. = polyandrous, adj. 1.