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Declinate.

Haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

lucid; clear. Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. Landor.

Translucently.

Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; - - opposed to athermanous.

Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers. Gray.

Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.

Sexually reproductive. Digenous reproduction. (Biol.) Same as Digenesis.

Having two angles. Smart.

Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium. R. Brown.

Containing two stones or nutlets.

Hazardous; dangerous. [Obs.] Harvey.

Disdainful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Disdainfully. [Obs.] Bale.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecagynia; having twelve styles.

Electrotonic.

Having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower.

Originating from within; increasing by internal growth. Endogenous multiplication (Biol.), a method of cell formation, seen in cells having a cell wall. The nucleus and protoplasm divide into two distinct masses; these in turn become divided and subdivided, each division becoming a new cell, until finally the original…

By endogenous growth.