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Webster 1913 Edition

Monadelphia

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Monˊa-del′phi-a

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., from Gr.

μόνοσ

alone +

ἀδελφόσ

brother.]

(Bot.)

A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens united into a tube, or ring, by the filaments, as in the Mallow family.