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Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless.

Having six pistils.

Goatlike; of or pertaining to a goat or the goats.

Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic.

Having all the flowers of a plant alike in respect to the stamens and pistils.

Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic.

Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.

Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. [Obs.] Bailey.

Of or pertaining to hydrogen; containing hydrogen.

Made transparent by immersion in water.

Having such a structure as to be diaphanous when moist, and opaque when dry.

Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant. Gray.

Same as Idiophanous.

Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals.

Produced by the action of fire, as lava. [R.]

Bright; clear. [R.] H. Taylor.

Imaginative. [R.] Chapman.

Having no wings, as some insects.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, impetigo.

Hoary with white pubescence.