peloria
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin peloria (“mutant, especially mutant toadflax”), from Ancient Greek πέλωρ (pélōr, “monster”) + -ία (-ía, “-ia, -y: forming abstract nouns”) and Latin -ia (“-ia: forming neuter plurals”).
Noun
[edit]peloria (uncountable)
- A variety of toadflax having five spurs instead of one.
- (botany) abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity
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[edit]Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “peloria”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)