pentamerous
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Thus, in both Lilium lancifolium and L. auratum the writer has frequently met with pentamerous flowers.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
To take an example, the group Pseudostrobus, characterized by pentamerous leaf-fascicles, appears in many systems.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
In the British Adoxa the uppermost flower generally has two calyx-lobes with the other organs tetramerous, while the surrounding flowers generally have three calyx-lobes with the other organs pentamerous.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
A flower in which the parts are arranged in twos is called dimerous; when the parts of the whorls are three, four or five, the flower is trimerous, tetramerous or pentamerous, respectively.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Hydradephaga; -ous: applied to aquatic, predatory pentamerous beetles with filiform antennae: see adephagous.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
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