diandrous

[ dahy-an-druhs ]

adjective

, Botany.

1. (of a flower) having two stamens.
2. (of a plant) having flowers with two stamens.

diandrous

/ daɪˈændrəs /

adjective

1. (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens

Word History and Origins

Origin of diandrous¹

From the New Latin word diandrus, dating back to 1760–70. See di- ¹, -androus

Example Sentences

Chiefly herbs, with square stems, opposite aromatic leaves, more or less 2-lipped corolla, didynamous or diandrous stamens, and a deeply 4-lobed ovary, which forms in fruit 4 little seed-like nutlets or achenes, surrounding the base of the single style in the bottom of the persistent calyx, each filled with a single erect seed.—Nutlets smooth or barely roughish and fixed by their base, except in the first tribe.

From Project Gutenberg

Woody plants, monopetalous, didynamous or diandrous, with the ovary commonly 2-celled by the meeting of the two parietal placentæ or of a projection from them, many-ovuled; fruit a dry capsule, the large flat winged seeds with a flat embryo and no albumen, the broad and leaf-like cotyledons notched at both ends.—Calyx 2-lipped, 5-cleft, or entire.

From Project Gutenberg

Flowers produced from a cleft in the margin of the frond, usually three together surrounded by a spathe; two of them staminate, consisting of a stamen only; the other pistillate, of a simple pistil; the whole therefore imitating a single diandrous flower.

From Project Gutenberg

But the tradition of it survives in the names of its classes, Monandria, Diandria, Triandria, etc., which are familiar in terminology in the adjective terms monandrous, diandrous, triandrous, etc.

From Project Gutenberg

Diandrous, having two stamens, &c.

From Project Gutenberg