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Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.

A Linnæan class of plants, whose stamens and pistils are in distinct flowers in the same plant.

Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil.

maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.…

Never again; at no time hereafter. Testament of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.

ow divided into the Permian and Trias. See Sandstone. -- New style. See Style. -- New testament. See under Testament. -- New world, the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times.

Oral; not written. Nuncupative will or testament, a will or testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof. Blackstone.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, those of the outer set being opposite the petals; -- said of flowers. Gray.

A Linnæan class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil.

Of or pertaining to the Octandria; having eight distinct stamens.

A portion of the Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.

A collection of eight books; especially, the first eight books of the Old Testament. [R.]

callow, hareld, and old wife. -- Old style. (Chron.) See the Note under Style. -- Old Testament. See under Testament. -- Old wife. [In the senses b and cwritten also oldwife.] (a) A prating old woman; a gossip. Refuse profane and old wives' fables. 1 Tim. iv. 7.

Having few stamens.

Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal.

plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike…

Direct fertilization in plants, as when the pollen fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; -- opposed to heterogamy.

A writing; a book. Testament of love. Sir Thomas More in his pamphlet of Richard the Third. Ascham.

Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.

Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.