Meanings
adjectivescitamineous (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoletebiologyOf or relating to the Scitamineae.
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I recollect no instance at this moment of an 1-locular anther except in Canna, and from its mode of insertion as well as the analogy of other scitamineous anthers, that seems to me rather half an anther, than a whole one: however, the radication, and stipulation fix Sowerbæa immovably near Dianella, as well as the country it comes from
1806, Richard Salisbury, The Paradisus Londinensis, volume 1, part 2, section 98
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