anandrous

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adjective

Lacking stamens; devoid of the male part.

“anandrous aunts”

OriginAncient Greek ἄνανδρος →
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Meanings

adjectiveanandrous (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyLacking stamens; devoid of the male part.

    Anandrous flowers eight or nine; their ligular portion white, hardly exceeding one line in length, undivided and acute […]

    1882, Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia, page 108
  2. figurativelynot comparablerareWithout a man or a husband.

    anandrous aunts

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἄνανδρος
  2. Englishanandrous

From Ancient Greek ἄνανδρος (ánandros). Equivalent to an- + -androus.

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