heterostyled
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]heterostyled (not comparable)
- (botany) heterostylous
- 1860, Charles Darwin, The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species:
- The family of the Rubiaceæ contains not far short of as many heterostyled genera as all the other thirteen families together ; and hereafter no doubt other Rubiaceous genera will be found to be heterostyled
References
[edit]- “heterostyled”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.