heterostyled
English
Etymology
hetero- + styled
Adjective
heterostyled (not comparable)
- (botany) Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths.
- 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
- 1860, Charles Darwin, The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 heterostyled in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)