Polygamia: Definition and part of speech

Polygamia

  1. n. pl. A name given by Linnaeus to file orders of plants having syngenesious flowers.
  2. n. pl. A Linnaean class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.

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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