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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[

Mono-

petal

: cf. F.

monopétale

(Bot.)

Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.

☞ The most recent authors restrict this form to flowers having a solitary petal, as in species of

Amorpha

, and use

gamopetalous

for a corolla of several petals combined into one piece. See Illust. of

Adj.

[Gr. only, and flower-leaf.] In botany, having only one petal, or a one-petaled corol; as a monopetalous corol or flower.