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‖ Monogynia Bot.|mɒnəʊˈdʒɪnɪə| [mod.L. (Linnæus), f. monogyn-us monogynous (f. Gr. µόνο-ς mono- + γυν-ή woman, taken in the sense ‘pistil’): see -ia.] The first order in each of the first thirteen classes of the Linnæan Sexual System, comprising plants having flowers with only one pistil or stigma. Also used attrib. or adj.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. iii. (1765) 78. 1785 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. x. (1794) 99. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 7/1. Hence monoˈgynian, monoˈgynic, monoˈgynious adjs. = monogynous a. 1.
a1794Sir W. Jones Enchanted Fruit Wks. 1799 VI. 182 Taught..To class by pistil and by stamen, Produce from nature's rich dominion Flow'rs Polyandrian Monogynian. 1891Syd. Soc. Lex., Monogynic, same as Monogynous. 1856Mayne Expos. Lex., Monogynius, having one pistil, or one style;..monogynious. |