heterostyled

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English

Etymology

From hetero- +‎ styled.

Adjective

heterostyled (not comparable)

  1. (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

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