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The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.

Same as Multifoil.

A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Polygalaceæ) of which Polygala is the type.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, Polygala; specifically, designating an acrid glucoside (called polygalic acid, senegin, etc.), resembling, or possibly identical with, saponin.

A Linnæan class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.

Polygamous.

One who practices polygamy, or maintains its lawfulness.

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives. Sylvester. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to polygamy; characterized by, or involving, polygamy; having a plurality of wives; as, polygamous marriages; -- opposed to monogamous.

al wives, at the same time; -- opposed to monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry.

One of the Polygastrica. [Obs.]

Pertaining to the Polygastrica. [Obs.]

The Infusoria. [Obs.]

The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; -- opposed to monogenesis.

distinct sources; originating at various places or times. 2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to polygenesis; polyphyletic. Polygenetic mountain range (Geol.), one which is composite, or consists of two or more monogenetic ranges, each having had its own history of development. Dana.

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

The doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair.

One who maintains that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair; -- opposed to monogenist.

Consisting of, or containing, many kinds; as, a polygenous mountain. Kirwan.