ambigenous

English

Etymology

From Latin ambō (“both”) + genus (“kind”).

Adjective

ambigenous (not comparable)

1. Of two kinds or natures.
   1. (botany) Having two natures, like the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine and the inner petaloid.

Translations

of two kinds

• Portuguese: ambígeno (pt)

References

• “ambigenous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.