Ambigenous: Definition and part of speech

Ambigenous

  1. a. Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.
  2. a. Of two kinds.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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