chorisisn.
/ˈkɔːrɪsɪs/ Botany.
‘The splitting of an organ into parts, each of which is as perfect as its original, as the stamens of Hypericum’.
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chorisis1835
deduplication1835
chorization1849
chorism1889
1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 332 I propose chorisis (χωρισις) to define what I have called deduplication and the adjective choristate, to signify unlined.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. ii. v. 528 Such a replacement of one stamen by two or more is termed by..Eichler and others Collateral Chorisis.
1879 A. Gray in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) I. vi. 200 Chorisis or Reduplication.
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