oppositipetalous

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English

Etymology

See opposite and petal.

Adjective

oppositipetalous (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Placed in front of a petal.
    oppositipetalous stamens
    • 1880, Henri Baillon, The Natural History of Plants, volume 6, page 43:
      [] cells 5 oppositipetalous, subincomplete at apex; []

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for oppositipetalous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)