andrœcious

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andrœcious (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete form of androecious.
    • 1887, John Garrett, The illustrated dictionary of gardening, page 23, THALIA:
      Flowers in pairs, pedicellate, loosely spicate ; sepals three, free, equal, membranous, equalling or much shorter than the corolla ; petals three, free or very shortly connate at base, equal or the dorsal one scarcely broader ; andrœcious tube short, the lobes petaloid, very irregular : panicle terminal ; bracts spreading under the branchlets, deciduous.