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Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

f laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

omething not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

To subdue; to tame; to daunt. [Obs.] Then is your careless courage accoyed. Spenser.

A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord".

or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

al meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

Destitute of stamen

The stamens of a flower taken collectively.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

A support or column on which stamens are raised. Gray.

Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.

A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.

Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.

That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.