adelphia

See also: Adelphia

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brother”)

Noun

adelphia

  1. (botany) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.

English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brother”).

Noun

adelphia (plural adelphias)

  1. Any plant of the genus Adelphia, of Latin America.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 adelphia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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