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Having eight pistils; octagynous.

A Linnæan order of plants, having five styles or pistils.

Of or pertaining to plants of the order Pentagyna; having five styles.

Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceæ.

Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; -- said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.

nd of women; one who esteems woman as the higher type of humanity; -- opposed to Ant: misogynist.

Fondness for women; uxoriousness; -- opposed to Ant: misogyny. [R.] Byron.

Same as Basigynium

A plant of the order Polygynia.

A Linnæan order of plants having many styles.

Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.

One who practices or advocates polygyny. H. Spenser.

The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; marriage to several wives. H. Spenser.

Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous.

Same as Proterogynous.

A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.

Belonging to the order Tetragynia; having four styles.

l which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds. -- Trich`o*gyn"ic, a.

Any one of the Trigynia.

A Linnæan order of plants having three pistils or styles.