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单词 amorphophyte
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amorphophyten.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: amorpho- comb. form, -phyte comb. form.
Etymology: < amorpho- comb. form + -phyte comb. form, after post-classical Latin amorphophyta, plural ( N. J. de Necker Elementa botanica (1790) III. 53).Compare French amorphophyte (1817 or earlier).
Botany. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
A plant having flowers which lack a definite, symmetrical, or uniform shape.
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1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. 1372/1 Amorphophytum,..applied by Necker to plants that have irregular or anomalous flowers: an amorphophyte.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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